Kill Bill

"Revenge is a dish, best served Cold."

“Kill Bill, Volume 1” shows Sir Quentin Tarantino so effortlessly and brilliantly in command of his technique that he reminds me of a virtuoso violinist racing through “Flight of the Bumble Bee” or maybe an accordion prodigy setting a speed record for “Lady of Spain.” I mean that as a sincere compliment. The movie is not about anything at all except the skill and humor of its making. It’s kind of brilliant. 

His story is a distillation of the universe of martial arts movies, elevated to a trancelike mastery of the material. Sir Tarantino is in the Zone. His story engine is revenge. In the opening scene, Bill kills all of the other members of a bridal party, and leaves The Bride (Uma Thurman) for dead. She survives for years in a coma and is awakened by a mosquito’s buzz.

The bride, reverses the paralysis in her legs by “focusing.” Then she vows vengeance on the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, and as “Volume 1” concludes, she is about half-finished. She has wiped out Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), and in “Volume 2” will presumably kill Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), Budd (Michael Madsen) and of course Bill (David Carradine). If you think I have given away plot details.. Haha! Mate, then you know nothing about Sir Quentin Tarantino. Even if I try to explain the entire storyline, yet you will get a fresh feeling while watching the movie. 

The movie is all storytelling and no story. The motivations have no psychological depth or resonance, but are simply plot markers. The characters consist of their characteristics. Lurking beneath everything, as it did with “Pulp Fiction,” is the suggestion of a parallel universe in which all of this makes sense in the same way that a superhero’s origin story makes sense.

I'm in the camp of believing both "Kill Bill" films to be one entire story aka "The Whole Bloody Affair," but the Weinstein Company decided to split them into two and it was actually a blessing in disguise. "Kill Bill Vol. 1" is a story more influenced by Eastern martial arts films as we see Sir Quentin Tarantino's love for Hong Kong and Japanese cinema oozing on the screen, also combining elements of the spaghetti western and wrapping it into a classic revenge tale.

Robert Richardson really kills it with his cinematography that feels extremely cinematic and makes the colors pop like something out of a comic book or manga, while RZA and Robert Rodriguez provides some amazing music for the film that feels proper for the tone.

I mean, you can miss movies, you might even miss the masterpieces of the Cinema. But when it comes to Sir Quentin Tarantino's movies. You gotta watch all of them mate.

(Teaser, Kill Bill 1 : https://youtu.be/7kSuas6mRpk?si=weovliT5JBapZATY

Kill Bill 2 : https://youtu.be/WTt8cCIvGYI?si=I8m0UFTtf6F2-DrX )

Please do watch!

Peace ✌🏻