The Banality of Violence Stylized 6

Rating: 6/10 (9 October 2015)

Sometimes I wish that Quentin Tarantino could weave a bit more substance into his stylized violence festivals. Kill Bill is a good example of a more general problem with his oeuvre.
There are some really nice aesthetic moments in this movie, but then there is a lot of extreme unpleasantness, such as the disturbing revelation that the Uma Thurman character, who has been comatose for four years, was being serially used as a prostitute by one of the male nurses (her pimp, unbeknownst to her) at the hospital. Very repulsive, and gratuitously so. Tarantino seems to like to come up with sickening scenarios just to prove that he can. I mean what role did the scene play in the larger story?
That's the problem, of course. The larger story is just a lot of violence carried out in revenge to other violence. Upon emerging from her coma, the Uma Thurman character goes on a mission to avenge her dead family, all of whom were killed at her wedding.
Tarantino has an idiosyncratic but consistent view of violence, which in a way is humanistic, as odd as that might sound. Everyone who does horrible things to people has been the victim of horrible things done to him or her. They feel fully justified in retaliating, but in the end everyone becomes morally equivalent, which is to say, in a word: repugnant.