Natural Born Killers From the first shots, the joint work of Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold plunges into the consciousness of a young serial killer named Chris. Leaving another corpse in the woods, he goes to have fun in a club, where he meets a girl and they go to her house. Chris lives with his van, traveling from city to city, the action is replaced by erotic entertainment, then murder, and again expensive. His life is like a road movie, of which he openly admits to himself, and the mind releases the dark essence of the personality, pushing to desperate acts. Tangled in himself, he goes nowhere until he meets true love.
One day he meets Aurora, whose heart immediately conquers one of its appearance. A girl who does not believe in love at first sight, immediately picked up by impulses of passion seduces the main character, without even having time to get acquainted. Between them flashes a vivid passion and surprisingly complete understanding. She is the spoiled daughter of a businessman (played by Barr himself), he is a serial killer living in a car, but she accepts him with all the vices, oddities and shortcomings, is ready to support and even help, and at the same time sincerely tries to fix him, to make him better. Find another way out of the stormy energy reigning inside the guy and pushing for murder.
The magnificent play of the two central youngsters is exciting and striking. Stunning Lizzie Borscher puts out to the fullest both visually and emotionally, becoming for the main character a muse and the meaning of existence, in some way even a mentor in life, helping to understand yourself. And Pierre Perrier successfully combines the image of a closed psychopath and a liberated womanizer, finding a kindred soul in his companion. Together, they give a colossal performance throughout the entire action of the picture, holding the frame with amazing charm, no matter how repulsive the actions demonstrated.
The main characters feel sympathy, despite everything they do. At one point, the action looks like a prequel to Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" - the formation of heroes and their joint trips with a bloody trail through visited places. And the creators of the picture, to some extent, really try to look into the perverse mind and at the same time psychological analysis of behavior, in order to understand who they really are born killers - victims or beasts, people or undeserving psychopaths. Numerous arguments on this topic are found in the film literally at every step, starting from memories in the dialogues of the characters, for example, when a maniac calls himself a “creation of God”, in the speech of minor characters, in close-up Internet articles on this topic and so on.
The film does not give accurate answers, but rather deeply plunges into the study of different points of view, at the same time introducing other interesting characters, whose role in the general plot is very conditional and short, but in fact the picture carries important elements for general understanding. Some are able to blame for no real reason, others are ready to close their eyes to everything, others are helplessly trusting and stupid, as if only looking for an excuse to become a victim of circumstances. Through a colorful set of personalities flickering in the frame, you can conduct a comprehensive analysis of accentuations and deviations, but at the same time they do not look at all as patients of a psychiatric clinic, but only present their view of life through their characteristics, which can be both accepted and rejected.
This is good and the film itself, it is able to attract delight or push to disgust. One he risks to seem exciting, very sensual and beautiful, while others will call it either home eroticism with a sad quote from Freud or just a stretched video clip, because a huge amount of attention is paid to the accompanying rock music in the style of Depeche Mode. Accelerate the action to five minutes with a focus on the most intense scenes, and it would really be a dynamic and impressive video clip – beautiful and sensual, intriguing and memorable. However, even in the format of the film, the action was not protracted, but catching at the expense of its heroes and the visual content of the picture. The plot repeats cyclically, each time more and more developing characters with a slight hint of the changes taking place, and that twist of action looks the further, the more interesting.
As a result, even the finale will cause a dual feeling, where the sense of adequate and long-awaited justice will border on emotional attitudes to the characters and the desire for a more beautiful resolution of conflicts, and nevertheless it is quite difficult to predict such a sudden outcome, although it does not carry anything super-incredible in itself, looking even the most logical conclusion of the story. On the other hand, is it a completion? Who knows where all this will lead the heroes later, and what will actually happen to them, the options from broken love to a couple in the spirit of Bonnie and Clyde will sweep through the thoughts, leaving everything as it is.
Excellent work on whose essence you can argue and reason for a long time, or you can just enjoy with interest, reviewing again and again. The film does not give answers to the questions raised in itself, but it demonstrates a completely accessible and understandable view on its topic. The juicy shot and talented play of a wonderfully matched casting unfolded an impressive story that will elicit different feelings and relationships, but most importantly, all of these emotions will be really strong. Applauseworthy almost impeccable work!
9 OF 10
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