‘Natural Born Killers’: Why the most scandalous film of the 1990s could have been written today

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‘Natural Born Killers’: Why the most scandalous film of the 1990s could have been written today

“It’s detestable. It’s the product of a schizophrenic director” was the blunt opinion of Pilar Miró on Natural Born Killers. Miró was one of the 3,000 people who saw the film at the Anoeta Velodrome during the San Sebastian Film Festival, “the best movie theater in the world” in the words of the “schizophrenic” director of the film, Oliver Stone. The man behind Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July had heard similar things at other festivals. C…