I watched "Mulholland Drive", and I didn't know what it said. I found a film critic and watched it once before I understood. It seems that many directors are loyal fans of the psychoanalytic school, and I believe Oliver Stone is the same. .
"Natural Born Killers" (Natural Born Killers is such a poor name) is also reasonable. Freud once proposed two human instincts, survival and destruction. In Freud's instinct model, the ultimate goal of human behavior is to achieve a state of tension-free, but whether it is the instinct of life or the instinct of death. , as long as it is activated will lead to psychological tension. Mickey and Mellorie both had terrible childhoods, which makes perfect sense. No one is a Natural Born Killer, and many carnivores only attack when they feel threatened. Maybe at first they were just trying to get away, which is evident when reporter Downey Jr. asked Mickey if he had killed his father, and he almost lost control. Anger comes from weakness, from feeling threatened, This is his weak point. The film's interpretation is that Mickey's father blasted his head off with a shotgun. Mellorie also had an unhappy childhood. Escape seems to be their inevitable choice. To be a bunch of couple killers, wandering the world, is undoubtedly full of romanticism, so rock, so cool. He almost became an icon for American youth. Yes, if you add elements such as LSD, marijuana, anti-war, and black liberation, this is almost a period documentary. The time must be the 1960s, don't explain why, God was on ice at that time.
Violent aesthetics, vaudeville montage, heavy color tone, unique film music style, strong individualism, except for the lack of chapter narrative, it is almost certain that this is Quentin Tarantino's work. But there are differences. Oliver Stone endowed the film with a strong social criticism color. If it is naughty Quentin, it must be cool to the end, preaching? Fuck it! significance? Bullshit! In contrast, I prefer Quentin's straightforwardness and crispness. The book was written by him, and he went astray.
The expression of the film's social significance is undoubtedly the media's intervention, and the live interview with Mickey provoked riots throughout the prison (the police in American movies are all idiots). Mickey is an excellent speaker because his logic of behavior comes from the heart, rebellious and natural, in his words, "We are not the same species, I kill as natural as a carnivore hunts an animal" (can't remember the original Words, roughly meaning), "I'm pure for a moment is better than your whole life to lie", which is undoubtedly a shot of adrenaline for teenagers who are currently in adolescence. In this way, the media spread violent thoughts for the sake of ratings, which led to mass riots.
Neil Postman's "Entertainment to Death" states: "Under the shell of television news programming lies a theory of anti-communication, which is characterized by a discourse that abandons logic, reason and order. In aesthetics In psychiatry, it is called "Dadaism"; in philosophy, it is called "nihilism", and in psychiatry, it is called "schizophrenia." give ideas. In the film, the reporter Downey Jr. (Danny Jr. is too stealthy) interviewed Mickey on the spot to infect Mickey's emotions to a wide audience. This phenomenon is similar to brainwashing. In the end, Mickey and Melorie brought that impression to the fore when they took down Downey Jr. The mutual use of media and violence was achieved, although Downey Jr. did not expect the result of death.
If you enjoyed watching Natural Born Killers as much as I did, congratulations, you were entertained too.
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