Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a Quentin Tarantino film that is filled with violence and bloodshed.

Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2012)

Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a Quentin Tarantino film that is filled with violence and bloodshed. This film begins with the bloody massacre at wedding in a church. In this massacre the pregnant bride Beatrix Kiddo played Uma Thurman, is shot in the head by a man named Bill, played by David Carradine whom is not shown. Kiddo then awakes in a hospital four years later to with no child. Kiddo then kills the attending nurse and begins her hunt for the person responsible for the massacre at her wedding. It is then learned that Kiddo was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and she begins to hunt and kill the other members and the employer of the Squad named Bill, whom was the father of her child.
The theme of this film is that a mother will avenge the death of close family and that of her child if they are taken from her. Throughout the film the theme is recurring because the film progresses through the journey that Kiddo takes to avenge the death of her child. Bill had ordered the massacre because Kiddo had left him and tried to secretly marry another man. Bill had ordered the massacre because of Kiddo's betrayal. In the beginning of the film a scene shows that Bill had intended to kill Kiddo if she only awoke from her coma.
The fight scenes in this movie have similarities to kung-fu with highly choreographed actions. The violence throughout the films is also similar to other Tarantino films such as Pulp Fiction. The editing of the film plays into the lineage of the plot because it shows the movie progress and answers questions that arise throughout the film. Shifting from time lines past, present and future show the progression of the film while showing understanding of the plot.
In one of the out of sequence killings Kiddo is shown slaying Vernita Greene played by Vivica A. Fox. Kiddo kills Greene in front of Greene's daughter and tells her that she could seek revenge if she wanted when she became an adult. This plays back into the theme because it shows the true devotion of revenge of a mother to kill another mother in front of her own child. This scene personifies the theme and shows the true meaning of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."