profound sketch

Bethany 2022-04-21 09:01:29

Novel techniques and imaginative lines fully explain the film's desire to express its views on violence-violence is the purity rooted in human animality that has the same status as love and family.

However, if you look at humans from the point of view of animals and ignore the presence of politics and rationality in human society, it will make the whole theory of the film untenable and become a comical talk, because after all, the reality is: we are not animals; the law Rule all; the media masters the language.

The reality formed by these three points is just the opposite of the story the film is about to tell. Therefore, although the film makes a profound declaration on the animality of human beings, it cannot escape becoming a sketch that intentionally ignores the deeper legal genes of human beings. From the point of view of animals, rationality has obviously been selected by evolution and history to overcome violence and become a product left in each of our genes. In other words, rationality is reality and future, while violence is romance and nostalgia.

In order to avoid completely becoming a violent visual sketch, many images of violence in real life are added at the end of the film, which can be considered as something to say, and put the violence, violence, and violence that have been resorted to in one place (a for the media Revolt of the Age of Fools).

So I personally think that the best shot of the whole film is: when the film crew escaped from the prison, the real prison administrators stood on both sides of the stairs smiling and watching the actors perform. Think about these smiling people. Behind, that's where religion, partisanship, war, soldiers, law, state, and all the horrific violence exists, that's the natural-killer-madness we've voluntarily cultivated out of everyone's blood.

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Natural Born Killers quotes

  • Dwight McClusky: How's a fella like you get to be involved with psychos, anyways?

    Jack Scagnetti: Actually Dwight, I'd recommend having your mother killed by one. After that happened I developed a rather keen interest in the subject.

  • [Guns aimed at each other]

    Mickey: Looks like we got us a Mexican Standoff.

    Jack Scagnetti: We've had this day from the beginning, huh, Mickey? Now slide that shotgun over here. Put your hands on your head and your head against the floor!

    Mickey: Or what, you'll wound me? I could blow you in half and you know it.

    Jack Scagnetti: I never wounded anything in my life. I got you locked right between the eyes, Mickey. I've had you locked from the jump, you phony!