It depends on the psychology of the film for me, I guess...what it's got to say. I could relate to Natural Born Killers because I could relate to what it had to say. (I've seen it 3 times.) I could follow what Oliver Stone was trying to say about society in that movie and I thought it had value. He made many good points about what's going on in the media and in people's heads these days.

I cannot relate to most other films which contain the kind of horrible, sadistic, graphic violence in Natural Born Killers, because I in no way relate to anything they're trying to say. They're not trying to enlighten anyone in most cases, they're just trying to exploit people's appetites for sensationalism and revenge fantasies.

I also don't really want to see films that leave me horribly depressed at the end...though I can make the odd exception, I guess, if the subject matter really interests me...and again, if I can strongly relate to what the movie is trying to say...and I think it's something of value.

So it isn't the violence itself, per se, the visual images themselves, that concern me...but rather the meanings conveyed by the movie. If the movie is saying something I find meaningful to me in a valuable way...then I can tolerate the violence.

I would not, however, want any child to be exposed to what's in Natural Born Killers. Children should not have such images inflicted on them at all, because they're too emotionally open and vulnerable at that age. It's bound to do them some damage.