In Reply to: Tarantino fans. posted by tinear on April 23, 2004 at 04:40:36:
>>I had heard "3" was already done and it featured the one-armed and the blind ladies coming after "Q"...<Sorry, that was probably the impression I gave with my post linked below. Tarantino said he would eventually make Vol. 3 and I extrapolated a likely plot using the elements from other Asian films in this genre.
I think the story needs a tragic ending to break the cycle of revenge and suffering. A Zen Buddhist ending would have the Bride dying at the end (and defeating her foes) to save the daughter. In Vol. 2, the Bride says that the massacre at the wedding rehearsal was what started all of this bloodshed, but what really started it was the Bride's choice to become an assassin in the first place and abandon her humanity. Through Vol. 1 and most of Vol. 2 she becomes even less human and more a killing machine (while Bill, ironically, is sympathetic at the end of Vol.2--protective of his daughter and brother, raised by a terrible surrogate father). Only at the end of Vol. 2 does she try to become human again. She confesses to Bill that she didn't actually believe she could successfully reclaim her humanity by marrying and becoming a mother. And I think that her reclaimed motherhood at the end of Vol. 2 will fail. The daughter will resent the mother for her tainted past. Eventually, the suffering caused by the Bride (and those vengeful women) will catch up with both her and her daughter. Cause and Effect.
Oh well, guess I'll have a couple of decades to wait and find out.
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- Re: Tarantino fans (spoilers). - TAFKA Steve 10:10:09 04/23/04 (0)