ovie like Natural Born Killers. They don't just wake up one morning and decide to commit a murder. The thought that someone could be legally responsible for the criminal conduct of someone who may have seen a film or watched at TV show is absurd. Grisham himself could be held responsible anytime two idiots get together and rape a young girl, because that happens in one of his books. The plain truth is, these two kids were psychopathic long before they saw Stone's movie. Ben and Susan are predictable of the offspring of a society in deep psychological trouble. Stone's film might better be seen as a documentary, an examination of a growing lethal attitude among our youth. But there's no way it can rationally be credited with instigating the insanity that drove those two to go on a murder spree. They must take that credit themselves. ...
