Could someone explain the movie Natural Born Killers to me?

Question

I saw the movie when it first came out and it didn't make any sense to me then. It doesn't make any sense to me now either. Is there a plot that I missed, a point, a hidden message...anything???

Answer 1

It's a satire on how the public and the media are obsessed with serial killers.

UPDATED RESPONSE:

Ya gotta love the thumbs down idiot here. I'm telling you, even the director of the of the movie mentioned that the film is a satirical commentary on the publics and media fascinations with serial killers.

Answer 2

Its a 1903 novella that brought Jack London to the world’s attention although an earlier work, The Son of the Wolf appeared in 1900. Both of these books were set in the Far North, and the latter was unusual for being the story of a dog and not a human. Yet Buck, the crossbred hound in question, has distinctly human characteristics learnt perhaps from his owner back in California. He is part St Bernard and part Scotch shepherd dog and the strengths of these breeds come to his advantage as he his stolen by an unscrupulous gardener and sent to the Yukon. This was the time of the gold rush and strong dogs such as Buck were at a premium. He is worked to the bone and brutalised with a pack of dogs pulling a sled but is rescued from this dire cruelty by John Thornton who shows him care as his master once had. When he returns free to the wild, Buck has learnt skills of self-defence and survival that are respected by other beasts and he becomes in his way a great leader. This is an extremely moving and heartening book that affects both children and adults.

Answer 3

The main point behind Natural born killers is that ANYONE can be a pop culture icon even serial killers. Mickey and Mallory Knox were obviously eveil wicked people, but because of their exposure they became heroes. Oliver Stone wanted to exploit the fact that anyone and I mean anyone can become famous for anything.

Answer 4

The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters.
Delivery boy Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) falls in love with customer Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis). He soon helps her kill her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and enabling mother (Edie McClurg), beginning their macabre journey down Route 666. Their M.O.: every few miles, they attack everyone within their site, invariably leaving only one person alive to tell the tale. The two are made famous by unscrupulous reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downy jr.), as they run across the countryside, pursued by the equally sadistic Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore). Just before the trial, a ratings-whoring interview by the same reporter who made them famous leads to pandemonium, not just within the prison itself, but nationwide. A satire of the media, public opinion, and the modern attitude toward violence

Answer 5

It could be a modern treatise on demonic possession in modern day America, it's causes,effects, and the media's deification of deranged killers and the glorification of violence.

Answer 6

basically Mickey and Mallory just go around killing people, but they always leave 1 person behind to tell the story. their first victim was mallorys abusive father
at the end, they break out of jail on live tv, during an interview, then they kill the reporter and that's the end

it seems a lot more complicated than it is, because of the direction style, theres a lot going on at once

Answer 7

Two people who had messed up childhoods become lovers and then serial murderers and the ignorant media glorifies it all.

I really didn't like the movie.

Answer 8

Its a commentary on the media's and public's obsession with murderers and how they tend to made celebrities out of the worst kinds of people.

Answer 9

People born to poverty are often denied education and job skills and are doomed to a life of crime and violence, and Woody Harrelson can play a villain as well as a comedy role.

Answer 10

I think this movie was based on an actual couple who went on a sick killing spree.

Additional info for those who gave me thumbs down: "Characters are loosely based on Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, a young Nebraska couple who in 1958 embarked on a mass murder spree across the Midwest that horrified the country."