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Sunday, November 02, 2003

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Kill Bill.......... and hurry up with it
A few words to describe this movie: Blood, gore, sword, fountains........ hahaha.......
Well admittedly to me it wasn't the big bore Quet made it out to be ( n i paid weekend price for it, so thank god for that ) but er, it wasn't exactly like, mainstream fare either.......

Ok, you all know the plot from the newspapers, but what they don't really prepare you for is the amount of plasma and blood that was just spraying and spilling from everybody in the film that Uma Thurman hacked. Example: When she sliced the head off an assassin, the blood just started spurting out from the neck like some macabre fountain hose of death gone wrong, and everyone in the theatre started laughing, cos it was just so "huh? How did that happen?". Ok, i learned this from a comic of mine, but apparently that's what happens when you slice people's heads off that way, cos of the enormous pressure it takes to pump blood up and down the neck. Yes, they don't just rely on gravity.

And this fountain of blood thing just happened everytime Uma hacked someone's limb/hand/leg/head off, like this guy, she hacked off his arm, and he went spinning and screaming, spraying everybody in the room with his blood. Eww.... really, the main question going through my mind was "Does blood really behave that way??". [No, it's not "Gods where's the toilet......"]

The soundtrack was also pretty interesting. Quentin Tarantino used this music that at times, sounded like a country western, an old gongfu flick, and in one scene, a jpop girl band. [what a range....] At times, the use of music made the whole thing just look really, really corny. Like when Uma and the assassins faced off each other, there'll be this cowboy western music playin and you're wondering whether john wayne will suddenly make an appearance. [Thus disputing all well-known fact that he's dead....]

Overall though, I tink like the papers said, you gotta be some film buff to really appreciate all the references Tarantino used in this film. For example, the mask that Lucy Liu's assassins wore? Duplicates of the mask worn by Bruce Lee when he did his acting stint in the Green HOrnet. Then there's the amazing japanese anime scene in the middle. Problem is you gotta be a real connoiseur of film n especially asian action film to know all of it, and I think there's where Tarantino fouled up. Most of his references are just not caught by the average man off the street looking for somewhere to bring a girl for a date. [Disclaimer: Khelath does not recommend that any man seeking to woo the affections of a woman actually bring her to watch this film. Especially if he's dating a faint-hearted girl]

One thing I really liked in the show? The steely sound that's made by the sword every time it's brought out. That sword was just singing the most amazing music every time it appeared............ :)

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