Natural Born Killers is a never-ending film that puts the audience in an unsafe situation from the very first scene, a wasteland. Surrounding the audience are letter-spitting rattlesnakes, eagles looking around, and mad couple killers Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Melorie (Juliette Lewis) who take pleasure in killing innocents. ). The standard of doing things for these crazy killers is like the narration in the opening sequence: whatever (Don't mean shit).
Perhaps the first time you watch this film, you will feel strange because of its unusual photography and numerous editing. But trust me, it doesn't take long to fully adapt and get into it. Cinematography is in the hands of Robert Richardson. Robert has made "Wall Street," "The Aviator," "Hugo," and "Inglourious Basterds." "Born to Kill" even shows Robert's amazing control, because if you don't pay attention, the tone will be too "fly". For the big platter of "Born to Kill": black and white, color, super 8, 35mm, TV, animation, and so many media, all blended into this film, it was so coordinated and so catchy. On the other hand, "One Step Away" (directed by Jiang Wen), which has the same diverse narrative methods, seems somewhat glib.
Jump cuts throughout (a editing method that does not follow the continuity of time and space and action), a lot of rear projection (if you have seen this movie, a way to create a virtual environment through projection), these two techniques are used in " Natural Born Killers is used extremely boldly, almost everywhere. In this way, Oliver seamlessly blends reality and fantasy, action and emotion. This kind of control and release of emotions is very effective. Even viewers without much movie viewing experience can easily realize that the image itself begins to speak as a language - "speaking" is not appropriate, it should be "shouting".
At the story level, "Born to Kill" is not a stunned movie that only knows how to fight and kill, and it not only depicts the romantic love between Mickey and Mellorie. What makes Natural Born Killer so good, in my opinion, is its strong connection to reality. We can notice that from the first scene at the opening of the fast food restaurant - the owner is constantly changing the channel, looking for a good show, the whole movie is full of pessimism about television as a mass entertainment medium. After director Oliver Stone's 1988 "Radio Crazy" criticized grandstanding radio shows that used personal privacy as an entertainment tool, it was finally TV's turn six years later.
Mickey's first meeting with Melorie was in the form of a TV show that contained a wealth of information - Melorie's tragic family life, she was never respected, raped by her own father , gave birth to his own brother and so on. In this TV show, whenever Melerie's father uttered a vulgar and shameless lewd remark, it would be accompanied by the audience's hilarious applause. This is also the direct feeling of the film creator that some TV shows are too vulgar and the audience's taste is declining. Later, when Mickey and Mellorie became world-renowned crazy killers, they gained fans from all over the world. One teenager described it this way: "Of course I'm not talking about killing innocent people, don't get me wrong. You know I'm a person who respects life. But if I'm going to be a killer who kills innocent people, I want to be Mickey and May. A killer like Le Li." (I'm not saying mass mueder or that shit. Don't get us wrong. You kown we respect human life and all. But if I was a mass murder, I'd be Mickey and Mallory .)
And then the news reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) tirelessly pursued interviews with murderous couples, in fact, to take this opportunity to put himself on the world stage and into the history books. This setting is a ruthless satire of entertainment news. At the end, Mickey made a concluding remark to Wayne: "You're scum, it's all about the ratings, and nobody cares about you but yourself, so nobody cares about you." (You're scum, Wayne. You did it for ratings. You don't give a shit about anybody except yourself, so nobody gives a shit about you. )
Some viewers will be moved by the love in the movie, and some will be disgusted by the violence in the movie. The killing scenes in "Natural Born Killers" are full of tricks and emotions, and the effect is very powerful. So I have to say, if you really don't like violent movies, or even have a moral abhorrence for violent gore, this movie may not be for you (this sentence should actually be in the first paragraph of the article, right).
2017.2.28
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