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In Reply to: Kill "Kill Bill, Volume 1" posted by halfnote on November 29, 2005 at 20:51:25:
I'm sure this is for naught, but I'll say it anyway. Why, simply because the movie wasn't your cup of tea, must you resort to calling it a 'prurient piece of trash.'?Did you feel a gust of wind as the point of the movie flew past you as you were watching it?
No doubt any number of people have referred to Pulp Fiction with a similar epithet.
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Don't be put off by the strength of expressions. Opinions, strongly stated, beget good discussion.Yet, I would appreciate it if you could clarify the "point" that breezed past me. Because, to coin your phrase, it did seem like so much wind to me. It's not that the film did not have a point, which, to my mind, was "revenge." It's just that it dealt the whole concept of revenge in a very obvious and two-dimensional way. Characterization is reduced to samurai robe and a sword. Plot is reduced to killing and maming scores of faceless motivationless automatons, video-game style. Revenge is reduced to mere bloodsport.
KBV1 has all the complexity of a Steve Reeves Hurcules flick; it's just that the director had more money and more technology to play with.
I realize that intelligent people admire this movie. I admire some of QT's other work. But this one doesn't measure up.
And I do stand by my comment that the film does betray a certain prurience on QT's part -- I am thinking primarily of the hospital scene -- a certain relishing of perversion and sadism.
A lot of folks admire "Resevoir Dogs," a worse and even more prurient film, in my estimation, than KBV1. I don't.
So far, I haven't heard anyone give a statement of the film's artist or thematic merit. Was it titillating? suspenseful? Does it evoke any kind of visceral reaction? Yes. But this doesn't make it a good film.
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