Kill Bill

[poliphilo]

Kill Bill puts a smile on my face. It's so intelligent. It's so vaccuous. It's a gratuitous exercise in pure style. The pacing is exquisite, the execution flawless. And it's so impassioned, so much a work of love.

Quentin and Jean-Luc up a tree-  K, i, s, s, i, n, g.

 And here's a Hollywood action movie without a single explosion in it. The way to get an audience excited is not to hit them and hit them and hit them in the face, but to keep them waiting.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that KB1 was very violent, but it doesn't seem so from your review.

Have you seen Kill Bill 2?

I'd never seen the first movie, but I thought the second one had, oddly, a Zen feel to it.

The first sequence is beautiful and surreal.

The second is thrilling.

You'll find yourself (I promise) overwhelmed at least once, and after you see this movie, you'll know exactly when.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I saw Kill Bill 2 in the cinema. I didn't think I'd like it (I wasn't a Tarantino fan) but I fell in love.

This was me catching up with part 1.

It is violent, but- how can I put this- it's a stylised violence. Limbs and head are chopped off and the blood spurts in fountains. It's like the violence in a fairy-story.

Oddly enough- considering all the killing- I found it wonderfully life-affirming. It's a joyous film