Nature versus Nurture: Mickey and Mallory The big scene in this movie where nature versus nurture really comes into play and is debated is when Wayne Gale interview Mickey. In this scene, Mickey gives his overview of why he is the way he is, and why he does what he does. A portion of Ryan Fraser's article "Road Sickness: The Case of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers" explains this perfectly: At the centre of this bit of prison interview between Mickey Knox, one of the film's killers, and a tabloid television host, seems to be confusion between the terms of the nature- nurture debate, or better yet an unwillingness to distinguish between them. Is the propensity for violence genetic? Does it emanate from within? Or is it more like a virus
