What political statement did you feel was being made in the film "Natural Born Killers"??

It is about the media and the public, the way that they both work together to elevate killers to the level of hero, much in the same way as the public is continually fascinated with tragic events such as the O.J. Simpson trial, the Menendez trial, the Manson case, etc. The public has a constant need for seeing violence and blood - it fascinates them.

I did a paper on Stone's movie back when I took Film History and Appreciation. And this is what learned about his films.

The assignation of JFK, and everything that has followed that event historical was been the slow decent of American society and civilization into Hell. With the JFK's assignation, that was the moment that America as a nation lost it's 'innocense'. With the loss of that innocense, we have become this ever hungary beast obsessed with self-gratification and the breeding of socio-paths that feed evermore on the last remaining innocense of our society.

Natural Born Killers - emulates Stone's personal philosophy, of the loss of a nations innocense. It's about the hunger for fame and the conscious way that the media takes this hunger to help create socio-paths.

At least this is what I got from doing my research on Stone.

Not my kind of flick Gunman, I didn't see it, but from the reviews I read--and Hubby's comments on it I'd say the political statement Stone was making is this:

The media can make the most vile, despicable, loathsome scumbag into a hero in the eyes of the public if that is what they choose to do. If the media loves someone-they can distort and twist the facts and the average subscriber is not even aware of it.

Reality....

There were several, but the main one was that the media's focus on murderers glorifies the phenomenon, exacerbating the problem. My problem with that movie was that it was doing the exact same thing!

To me, it is totally a parody of how we glamorize violence and associate it (overtly and subtly) with sex. The scene where Mickey loses his gun and attractive female reporter says "he is rendered impotent" is a perfect example.

That people are sick and flawed, enough of them so that others can make tons of money from them!