Oliver Stone's 1994 classic, Natural Born Killers, thrilled and traumatized its audience, while also causing controversy. The story of white trash lovers caught up in a reign of chaos that includes an ongoing state-to-state murderous rampage, it draws audiences in with its graphic violence and addictive beat-inducing music. However, the message of this film seems to be much deeper than simply exposing audiences to yet another chaotic action film full of guns, blood, and mayhem. Stone's Natural Born Killers examines the topic of media investment in serial murder in great depth, and so it seems likely to have the potential to offer a more rigorous interrogation of the nature of the American public's fascination with the serial killer superstar ( Schmid 123). Natural Born Killers is a film that exposes modern society's obsession with serial killers and how the media helps glorify these infamous icons. The film also plays on the fact that society, while finding murder repellent, is as sick as serial killers because they like watching these films. In Natural Born Killers, Mickey and Mallory the main characters kill 52 people before being captured and imprisoned. Before their arrest, the manhunt for them earned them celebrity, and half the country, if not the world, is rooting for their triumphant escape from the law. Even though their clean escape is cut short by captivity, their celebrity endures. When they escape from prison in the midst of a riot, their escape is filmed live by the host of a true crime program. Naturally Born Killers conveys most of its message visually, as all films do. Making use of animations, colored filters, a variety of different films, both in color...... and half-paper...... the satisfaction of a double and correlated curiosity on the part of the spectator about celebrities and murderers, but this satisfaction can only occur if these films can effectively discipline the unstable structures of identification they generate (Shmid 113). Although it seems that Oliver Stone's mission is to open the eyes of the audience with a satirical gaze while exploring the underlying theme of obsession with murder, the audience looks at their own inner demons, while also examining their own morals. And just as they exuded an obsession with murder, Natural Born Killers were found to have been implicated in 15 murder cases, of which the most infamous was the murder of four people in Paris by Florence Ray and Audry Maupin, and in the United States. the killing of William Savage and the wounding of Patsy Ann Byers by Sarah Edmondson and Benjamin Darras (Young 6).