Toward the end of Quentin Tarantino's new film Kill Bill Vol. 1, assassin O-Ren Ishii (played by the massively unthreatening Lucy Liu) tells similarly deadly assassin "The Bride" (Uma Thurman), "Your instrument is quite impressive."
The comment is meant to apply to a hand-forged blade, but could also apply to Tarantino's cinematic vision. In Kill Bill, he of the super chin has totally abandoned the "plots" that unfortunately constrained Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, and instead has totally immersed himself in the kitschy stylistic instrument that made those films such turbulently cheerful killfests.
Kill Bill is the crystallization of the other Tarantino films' most …
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