They're a bait-and-switch: First part presents you with an over-the-top cartoony world, but slowly drags you into the Desert of the Real™
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Replying to @mjanetmars
And it gets super fucking real. It goes from being "killing people is fun" to "holy shit I had to fight Hell on Earth to get my life back."
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Like, if you remove the spectacle from Kill Bill it's a story about love, separation, parenthood and romantic resentment.
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Kill Bill is about a couple who really love each other but want completely different things in life, and how that tears them apart.
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Like, I know it's super hard to get distracted with the film's tone, but to ignore the actual themes going on under it is to not get it.
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Kill Bill is certainly Tarantino's more emotional–personal film. That film is filled with "too old for this shit" midlife crisis characters.
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Everyone in the Kill Bill universe kinda just wanna retire from the madness, and move on with their lives to have families and comfy lives.
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But they have unresolved shit in their past that keeps dragging them to the muck, disrupting their peace and quiet. THEMES MOTHERFUCKER.
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But yeah, I understand why it's easy to miss all those themes when you're a teenager just watching for the action and animu sequences.
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But it's not fair to dismiss the film as mere spectacle. Kill Bill might've looked just like fun cartoony nonsense, but there's heart to it.
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thing I realized only after seeing it a few times: in the second movie she doesn't actually kill anyone except bill
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