Natural Born Killers

Oliver Stone intentions in directing the visual masterpiece of Natural Born Killers was to make a unique way of telling this violent story through cinematography. Throughout the entire film the hectic style of cinematography produces a feeling as if the viewer is watching the media cover this murderous case.
In Natural Born Killers, we the viewer are watching and interpreting this film from many different standpoints. The cinematography is very unusual; it is extremely different from the conventional style of shooting films. As soon as this film starts, we get introduced to this insane couple in the opening scene and the viewer gets a little taste of several types of cinematography choices. These choices are made throughout the entire film. The opening sequence begins with all these fast paced camera movements and black and white close ups as it switches from character to character. It is as if we a watching them from an additional point of view. The couple begins to kill every person in that diner from and each person killed the cinematography gets more quick. Other types of camera techniques used to switch up the viewers point of view are when we get to follow directly behind a weapon as it kills someone, like a bullet to the head. The scene leads us quickly into some kind of alternate environment, like a psychedelic dream world that I noticed happen in many other transitional cuts. Throughout Natural Born Killers, the continuous fast pace cinematography is a little overwhelming, yet visually pleasing.