For a violence wienie like myself, Kill Bill 2 is the perfect combination of guts and passion. I loved this movie…and that’s saying a lot. I have never been a Tarantino fan. I’m probably the only kid from our generation who totally hated Pulp Fiction…and I still do. I can’t appreciate it, no matter how many chances I give it, and we own the damn dvd! But Kill Bill, here are some of the reasons why I, like so many other’s, think it’s a fine flick:
1. Uma Thurman. Thank God for her, or else this movie would be about something entirely different. The fact that Tarantino has a female protangonist is so rockin, I could hardly stay in my seat. She kicks so much ass, she endures so much grief, and yet, you know she’s going to succeed–she just has to!
2. The passion…you really FEEL the violence in both movies. When Uma’s arm is wrenched behind her back, when her fists bleed from pounding them into wood blocks, when she finds out she’s pregnant. Tarantino is nortorious for countless throw-away violent scenes, (remember Four Rooms?), this time he includes someone who’s actually real. Someone who actually experiences the carnage on the other end…When Uma wakes up from her coma, I couldn’t believe he devoted so much time to her grief. She cries! Really, really, cries! It was refreshing and made the audience empathetic with her plight.
3. Revenge…ah, sweet revenge. I used to be a pretty vengeful chick, myself. In my younger years, I probably would have embarked on a similiar mission, only instead of a sword and a kung-fu grip I would have armed myself with my cunning wit and a martini splashed in somebody’s face. Revenge is at it’s finest in this film. Even the victims agree with Bea: They deserve to die.
4. The clothes, Uma’s cowboy boots, the awesome details of that shitty trailor.
5. That chick from Splash, holy cow, I hope I look that good at…whatever age she’s at…40?
To sum up, I have to admit I like Vol. 2 better simply because I could watch most of it without holding my hands over my eyes. Ask Johnny, (or Josh), even during Vol. 2 I was peeking through my fingers, whispering: “Is it done yet? Can I look now?” I don’t do well with gun-play…I hate when characters wave around guns and talk about what they want to do, (hence my dislike for Pulp Fiction). I’ve always had a theory I was once shot in a former life, because I have a deep-rooted fear of guns.