Dear mr. Tarentino,

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2004)

I've been watching the beginning of your movie Kill Bill, volume 1 and I failed to comprehend your motivation for the excessive violence. I turned it off. I studied film and watched your earlier 90's movies Reservoir dogs and Pulp Fiction. In these days in the mind frame I was in, it seemed to make sense at least someone making such movies, because of the discussion it provoked on the explicitness of violence in film as a subject. I wrote a paper on it, but already had moral problems. Of course I am free to watch or not. But you are free to make such movies or not too. So why do you? I regarded your movies as thought provoking and sort of a reaction to be in a way in opposition to violence in the casual way it gets portrayed in cinema or television series in abundance, in many ways which one could almost condone it. That's why I thought you to be in fact a very moral person, who could oversee the moral complexity of his actions while taking things to and over the edge. By now, I feel you have tripped into a minefield with no way out, and dragging me as a spectator in there a little with you. Isn't there a comparison to the way in which 'the military fighting for a good cause' may become as dark as the supposed 'evil' that they are fighting. Is it a misconception of my part to place you in this discussion in this way, or is it just the thrill of making such violent movies, do you actually still have the overview or has the car run of with the driver. Could you make any more brutal a movie? Do you want people to see violence for what it is or has it just become a trade? I know you're not Walt Disney, by the way, and of course Donald Duck is also quite violent... Or are you?
A naive dreamer for a more friendly world