The film's MTV-like editing method, the alternating black and white color shots that Oliver Stone used to use in "Assassination of Kennedy", soap operas and animations, and the use of various music, these dazzling film techniques greatly stimulated the audience. However, the themes conveyed by the film are more surprising and shocking than the gimmicky techniques.
From the very beginning of the film, the director uses a series of oppressive black-and-white shots to bring the audience into a world full of slaughtering animals: a wolf foraging, a snake spewing a terrifying long letter, an eagle with sharp eyes, and a The scorpion splattered only by the blood of the wheels, and the shocking scenes indicate that this will not be a film that will make you feel relaxed. Immediately after the camera switched to a pub, a shocking killing game began: the heroine Melally was dissatisfied with a man's teasing, and her boyfriend Mickey killed the unfortunate man, and other people in the pub also died. Personnel, Mickey and Melalie, the pair of mandarin duck killers have an unwritten rule that every time they kill a man, they must leave a living person as a witness to their tracks, so when there are two living people left in the tavern, Melally Just use the way we played when we were children to decide who dies. Here, when we see someone who actually treats killing as a game for children, you will definitely grit your teeth for this crazy act of ignoring life, and then Human cruelty may also come to mind. However, don't be deceived by the opening of the film, which is clearly not what the director wants to tell us.
Although the title of the film is "Natural Born Killer", and when the TV host Wayne asked Mickey why he felt that killing was pure, Mickey also answered "because I am a natural born murderer", but we all know the world. No murderer is born, and Mickey and Melorie are the same: Mickey was born into a violent family, from his grandfather to his father died at the gunpoint of violence, and he witnessed brutal and bloody scenes at a young age. , making him feel from a young age that he has the right to end the lives of those who are hypocritical and should not exist. Melalie grew up in a chaotic family. She was harassed by her incestuous father since she was a child, and her mother also turned a deaf ear, which made her extremely depressed, and finally killed her parents with brutal means with Mickey. The growth of all evil must have a soil for it to take root, and this soil is an unjust, evil, hypocritical society that is more terrible than murder. So when someone challenges this unreasonable society, we as the audience can't help clapping our hands and applauding, and that's exactly why, in the film, we will feel that most of our lives are boring and boring, only when blood The moment of splashing is bright and meaningful. Maybe this kind of thinking seems to some people to be as perverted as a murderer, but what I want to say is that it is not us that are perverted, but society. Here, the director has unknowingly made us, who were still gnashing our teeth, stand on the side of the murderers.
Of course, there are only a few people who dare to act as challengers. Even if the "Crime and Punishment" opposite to this film finally compromises with society and religion, Raskolnikov hacked to death the hateful old woman like a louse after all. We don't even have the courage to lift the axe. More of us are just ordinary people who live in order. We neither have the ability to jump around the wall, nor the courage to rejoice in our grievances. The only thing we have is the worship of challengers, so when the media continues to carry out the murders of Mickey and Melalie. After the report, all the people not only did not regard the desperate couple as fugitives, but worshipped them as heroes in their hearts, and even put out an exaggerated slogan - "Murder me"! This almost crazy behavior of the people has to make us re-examine the crazy crime from another fresh perspective: Do we have the right to decide the life and death of those damn people? Clearly, Mickey thought he had such a right, and it was a God-given prerogative to him. In the movie, the mad couple murderers, like children fleeing from a nightmare, are reckless and unruly in a society lacking justice and freedom. Killing is pure in Mickey's view, and on live TV he uttered a classic line in front of Wayne, a host who just wanted to improve the ratings: "A moment of my purity is better than a lifetime of lies. ". Of course, it's not just the TV hosts who are hypocritical, but also the sanctimonious police officers, and the warden who is working hard for his official career. In their eyes, other people's violence and crimes are things that can be used to sell, and to achieve this The purpose of self-interest, in contrast, their morality and behavior are no higher than murderous.
Mickey and Melalie actually just want to be simple and ordinary people, just as Melalie herself said that she also wants to have a child and live a life of husband and child with Mickey. Similarly, in Mickey's subconscious, he has always been a gray rabbit with big ears, and the rabbit has always been docile and cute. However, in such a society where people are forced to go to Liangshan, it is impossible to be a quiet and obedient citizen, so the rabbit is anxious and biting. Mickey and Melorie's murder is nothing more than a symbol, they are using this method to fight against the evil and hypocrisy in this society. At the end of the film, there is a very sunny picture: Mickey drives a bus with a pregnant Melari and a group of innocent and happy children, laughing and laughing along the way. This may be the original idea of Mickey and Melalie, but it is estimated that this picture was imagined by the director's wishful thinking, because for such a pair of desperate mandarin ducks, this social reality will never allow their desire to be realized.
In fact, there are many movies named after murderers, such as "Chainsaw Massacre", "Spoon Massacre", "New York Massacre", etc. However, most of these movies are just to stimulate the audience's visual effects through bloody horror shots. , and Oliver Stone's "Born to Kill" is obviously much smarter than the above. Some people say that Oliver Stone has rendered violence through this film. I don't agree with this. Throughout the film, we will see that there are actually many violent and bloody scenes. The scenes of the film were replaced by the director with animation, coupled with the interludes of light soap operas, so that blood and violence did not fill every corner of the film, the whole film is like an RPG game that takes place on the screen, but it achieves a certain Philosophically thought-provoking heights. As for whether people have the right to decide the life and death of others, as to whether the worthy person should be killed, and as to whether Tuo Lao and Oliver Stone are right or wrong, this will always be a controversial topic, just like this film. It is not clear that the Tao is unclear, just like the Chinese-style Tai Chi pattern that appeared on Mickey's hand in the movie: the Tao can be Tao, and it is very Tao.
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