Great Film: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Gorgeous!
A lot of people have come up to me and said "How can you love Quentin
that much, he is just too extreme!" or "Oh come on, Kill Bill is just
SO not realistic.." Yes. No.
Mr. Quentin Tarantino is rather extreme, yes, and it's lovely! And No.
Kill Bill is not realistic, but it's not meant to be realistic! Just
like... Lord of the Rings, that's not realistic either! But because it
has clear unreal elements, like wizards, it's acceptable?
You don't go to see Kill Bill, or any other Q.T-film to see "Stepmom",
in the same way you don't go to a Marilyn Manson concert hoping that
they will play some Spice Girls..
Kill Bill, both volume 1 and 2, is absolutely gorgeous! The art
direction is beautiful! The camera angles are perfect... just Gorgeous!
The lighting, the sound, the dialogs... and of course, the details! No
one works with small details the way Quentin does. I must also say that
the soundtrack is brilliant and the whole film is just so well casted!
Uma Thurman is perfect in the leading role, Darryl Hannah has never
been this good before, ever! And Chiaki Kuriyama, even though she has a
quite small role, is excellent, even better than she is in "Battle
Royale". David Carradine is painfully perfect, Michael Madsen is ALWAYS
excellent, but never as good as when he works with Tarantino. I must
also say that Sonny Chiba was great. I've never been a big fan of
Vivica A Fox until now, and I used to think that Lucy Liu was just your
average actor but she turned out to be fierce. Pretty much everyone who
is in this film is ten times better than they've ever been.
But above all things, Kill Bill is artistic, beautiful... Perfect
colors, perfect everything... gotta love it.
Cast
- Buck played by Michael Bowen
- O-Ren Ishii played by Lucy Liu
- The Bride played by Uma Thurman
- Vernita Green played by Vivica A. Fox
- Bill played by David Carradine
- Budd played by Michael Madsen
- Johnny Mo played by Chia Hui Liu
