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In 1994, director Oliver Stone and storywriter Quentin Tarantino created the epitome of the American masterpiece: Natural Born Killers. This incredible movie was made to portray the 1990's as a whole, and to tell the story of a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Today, it is a classic and should be a standard for all movie making, as well as film critiquing. Natural Born Killers is about two people, Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliet Lewis) Knox, who meet, fall madly in love, and travel the west while on a three week "killing spree" until they are apprehended by the police and imprisoned. The movie continues one year later, when Wayne Gayle (a media icon who hosts a TV series documenting serial killers and mass murderers) conducts an interview with Mickey live on network-TV inside the prison. During this interview, Mickey makes a statement setting off the entire inmate population, which then causes a horrifically violent riot. When Mickey realizes he has an opportunity to reunite with his love, he seizes it, and the formerly separated couple resumes their previous habits inside the prison during the riot.
Natural Born Killers is a perfect representation of the 1990's, and is truly a classic love story, not a tale of a gruesome murdering spree. The chaotic mood of the film, as well as the underlying plot of a love story makes for an absolutely incredible and exciting movie. It is sets standards that every movie should measure up to. Another way NBK portrays the 1990's is by showing Mallory's adolescence just prior to meeting Mickey as a parody of the well-known TV sitcom, "I Love Lucy". This showed the idea that the typical American in the 1990's was fed by TV, and felt emotions when he/she was told to. The domestic violence and sexual molestation occurring in her household was laughed at as if it were a sitcom, despite its atrocious nature. This represents the apathy millions of people feel toward many very serious and frighteningly common problems in our society during that decade. movie vividly portrays the 1990's with its incredibly chaotic setting. The brilliant makers of this film use techniques such as including two different perspectives (visually) in one scene. For example, in the beginning scene, Mickey and Mallo
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