Analysis of Natural Born Killers
Natural born killers is a violent film with a twist. It provides humor
and violence and cartoons in parts of the film. I think that Natural
born killers is a bad film because a lot of the time you don’t know
what is going on and it is a film that you have to watch without any
distractions, also it makes out that violence is funny by using
cartoons and other surrealistic parts. The film is also bad because it
can influence dominant and passive audiences to go out and murder
people for the fun of it. Although the film is bad it has excellent
effects with camera and lighting epically just before they have a
fight the camera shows all angles of the character and sometimes the
camera is in their point of view so it’s like we are the character, we
arte involved in the film. Oliver Stone also used a lot of semiotics
with colour, the most common being red and green. Red symbolizes death
and blood whereas green symbolized jealousy. He also used black and
white mostly when Mickey and Mallory were fighting, which symbolized
evil and death and when it goes black and white it is what the
characters are thinking from their point of view.
The film starts with a waitress coming over to fill Mickey’s cup up,
then the camera pulls back and for the first time we see Mallory, both
their backs are towards the camera. The first piece of violence we see
is when Mallory punches Otis’ face and then grabs the back of Otis'
head and smashes it down on the table, cracking the linoleum. After
that Micky joins in and a fight begins using knifes, guns etc. Mallory
says “Eanie, meanie, minie, moe, catch a nigger by the tow. If he
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to commit what they have just seen.
I think it is hard to see whether it is just a violent film or if it
has comedy and action in it too. Personally I think it has all three
in but is hard to see unless you pay attention to the film. The film
is suppose to be violent, yet there is hardly any blood or gore and
also some of the swear words are censored which you wouldn’t expect
for this film. The film also contains a scene which is set as a 1950’s
sit-com which is totally original for a violent film to have in.
Natural born killers has lots of different genres in which makes the
film more interesting and unpredictable which is good if you like them
kind of films.
I think the use of music and lighting (black and white etc) was really
good to show the characters emotions unlike any other film I have
seen.
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