Stockholm Film Festival

In his most media criticizing film, based on a story originally written by Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone takes us for a visually and technically remarkable pop culture ride through American society. Together with mass murderers Mickey and Mallory Knox (played by the then not so established Cheers-star Woody Harrelson, and Juliette Lewis), we're on the highway to hell, breaking all the rules as we go. Natural Born Killers is chaos, violence and death, all summoned upon the screen as heavy satire. The film feels as if it came out from Stone's gut the wrong way, a result of his disgust for our fascination with the darker sides of society and the media coverage of it. And of COurse by the end, we are left with the lingering suggestion that we all deal with the consequences of it.
Using numerous different formats, Stone and his co-workers create a marvel, making the audience feel as if Mickey and Mallory's journey digs itself into their flesh. The overall chaotic feeling within the film is pushed forward by impressive editing, the Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)-mast~red ~oundtrack and not least, a superb cast. Once unleashed, the actors present extreme performances, adding to the films crazed speed. Robert Downey Jr, for example, with his outrageous Geraldo Rivera/Robin Leach-like crime show host, hints to an interview by Rivera with Charlie Manson as his character Wayne Gale makes bucks out of Mickey in prison. It's scary as hell, and Stone serves it to us as a bloody steak on a silver plate.

ELIN LARSSON

Medverkande

Woody Harrelson,Juliette Lewis,Tommy Lee Jones

Producent

Arnon Milchan

Manus

David Veloz

Foto

Robert Richardson

Musik

Trent Reznor

Talat språk

English

 

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