Kill Bill Vol.1 (2003) Quentin Tarantino

                                                      

Kill Bill Vol.1 is about the bride (Uma Thurman) a former member of  the deadly viper assasination sqaud who quit the squad for a simple life with her fiancee in Texas. She was bruatlly attacked in an attempted murder along with 8 other people who were all killed (including her fiancee) at her wedding by the other members of the sqaud. She now seeks revenge on all of  them. After she kills them she can finally kill Bill who is the head of the squad. The  film opens with a powerful short scene where the bride is seen shot in the head by Bill. From there it jumps in time to the last chronological scene in the film and from there to the almost beginning with some more flashbacks along the way. This film is a homage to the low budget gory martial arts films that Tarantino used to watch as a clerk in a video store. As expected it is very gory but the violence looks very fake. Don't get me wrong, the violence is exaggerated intentionally, I found it unique and interesting although some might disagree. The story wasn't very uniqe, but again this is a homage. Some people might say Tarantino takes the homage thing too far, I on the other hand found it interesting. Although the story is chewed out Tarantino did add a lot to the genre. The Tarantino style editing which is very stylized and so many Tarantino trademarks (feet, red apple cigarettes, corpse and trunk pov (point of view)etc...), I especially loved the black humor.  The acting was pretty good but this movie is pretty shallow on emotions and acting (the exact opposite of Kill Bill Vol.2). Again, don't get me wrong it is all intentional. The cinematography is amazing, very aesthetic and unusual angles and frame sizes (lots of close ups and extreme close ups). I liked the symetrical frames like in a lot of martial arts (especially Japanese) films. I liked the use of snow and cherry trees for aesthetics (again like in Japanese films), and the very strong use of colors too.
Rating- 5/5 stars.
 In one scentence- "A very unique and stylized film".