Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers follows the lives of two individuals who, sexually abused at an early early age by their fathers, seek revenge on patriarchal authority by becoming mass murderers. It is a society in which citizens are aware of their imperfect, insignificant humanity and find themselves at the mercy of a sadistic, anonymous authority. It is a modern day Frankenstein, in which the father figure, after creating and maiming his creature, has abandoned it to a society controlled by monsters. I wonder, however, if these ideas are implicated in the cultural crisis portrayed by this film, because without Lacant, Natural Born Killers may never have been created. Like Berio's Sinfonia , and Zorn's Forbidden Fruit , it is a kind of pastiche.
Different sounds merge into non-sensible chaos to become a kind of gibberish.
These songs, many of which are not only familiar but cultural cliches, become Other and eerie. Mickey hears the voices from his childhood, laughter, screams, horses and other frightening noises penetrate his mind over shamanistic chanting. This scene signifies Mickey's journey into the Abject and aurally marks his baptism as a demon. With soaring cries and singing in tongues, this song suggest the Real that plastic American culture tries to hide. It is an aural signifier of the bare desert lying at the edge of the neon towns.