My Conversion to Tarantino

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2004)

I don't know if it's me that's changed, but I've never made it more than 20 minutes through "Pulp Fiction". "Reservoir Dogs" nauseated me because I hate gratuitously violent films, and "Natural Born Killers" crept upon me when I had fallen asleep after a drinking session at a friend's house, and left me with no desire to do anything other than continue sleeping.
Maybe I just watched them all at the wrong times...
"Kill Bill Volume 1" however, now that's different. Like a lot of people, I didn't know much about it until I heard a review for Volume 2. I got hold of a copy of "1" and watched it last night. It's the best entertainment I've had this year! I was riveted to the screen. Uma Thurman is truly excellent, and in a film full of charactures she comes across as a real person. Stunning. Or maybe that's a worrying comment on my own perception! At any rate, the point was well and truly got across.

This is no average film in any way. Yes, the violence is horrific; I found myself thinking "what on earth am I watching this monstrous film for!?", but unable to stop watching it. It is done in such a stylised, often tongue-in-cheek, and sometimes outright funny way that it's simply about conveying a message, the anger. And that is achieved in no uncertain terms. This is a simple, raw revenge tale, made interesting by my sympathy with Thurman's character. It IS horrific, but it's about righteous anger and fury, and that makes it seem almost okay. Thurman efficiently got me on side very early on, and from then on it's goodies and baddies, really good, gripping stuff. I don't know what that says about me and I don't care to analyse myself too much there! Who cares if they bleed all over the place, they're the baddies and they deserve it, that's how it should work isn't it? And I, for one, can't wait to see Vol. 2 to find out just what happens next.
Loved it, loved it, loved it!!!!!!!