Tarantino is a real master and he knows how to (mis)match style to content!
He picks up the staple revenge genre and adds a dash of his own twisted brilliance to it: the minute shot divisions, the shifty chromes, animation, split screen, speech bubble, the rocking background score which creates an auditory montage qua the visuals--he knows how to tale a tale on screen with oomph! He treats the complex emotion of revenge with a philosophy truly becoming of it!
The first fight sequence shows his complex insight into the relation between the maternal self and the errand of violence with the kid as a reminder of the problematic ethical perspective.
With Lucy Liu, we move into a revenge within the revenge...As this revenge story is pushed back in time and spread across different characters, we discover other anchor points which can only be steeped in revenge. It's quite a Senecan situation but without the 'tragic' aura...the aura of tragedy is deflated by a disturbingly funny take on violence, laced with black humour.
The feminised combat culture borders on antagonism at the cost of theism and a splendid Uma Thurman is there to further the gore. Kill Bill is entertainingly thought provoking with the typical Tarantino zing.
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