These are the problems that arise from Stone's contradictory and unclear rhetoric:

• The movie focuses mostly on Mickey and Mallory's romance, which makes it hard for the average moviegoer to percieve the movie as an attack on the media. The attack on the media is there, but it is brief and quiet.
• Mickey and Mallory are portrayed as heroes living a great romance, and their actions seem justified based on their traumatic childhoods. This makes it harder to see what they do as wrong.
• There is no reason to sympathize with the victims.
• There is no distinction between how the media within the film portrays Mickey and Mallory and how they are portrayed in the "real world" within the movie.
• The chronology both hinders the film's portrayal of the killers being seen as the media's portryal of them and also reinforces the suggestion that the killing is justified.
• The film contains dialog and actions that suggest that what the media does is actually worse than what Mickey and Mallory do.
• Mickey and Mallory are portrayed as more favorable than the law enforcement characters.
• The demon references give additional reasons to excuse the actions of the killers.
• It is suggested that what they do is normal animal behavior, and this view is never contradicted. It is rather supported through Stone's use of editing.
• The instances when Stone highlights his overall argument are few and far between, allowing them to be easily missed through their lack of reinforcement.
• The music makes the violence more entertaining and less shocking, and through the absence of structuring the film as media presentation of the killers as opposed to Stone's, makes the movie part of the problem rather than the solution.
• There are no consequences for Mickey and Mallory's actions.