So what is the meaning of Kill Bill?
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In December of 2025, my neighbor,
Quentin Tarantino finally released
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. The film that was originally meant to be, but that was unfortunately cut into two volumes upon its original release, 2 decades ago. Therefore for this review I will be treating Volume 1 and Volume 2 as one film, even though it has a rather substantial intermission in its not-directors-cut version. Re-experiencing the story of the Bride and her revenge, for this review, filled me with some rather profound questions. Questions that I believe I started asking in my
review of Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood. Questions as to: what is the meaning of
Kill Bill?
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Is The DeVault Report a Spiteful Metajoke
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Oh god, I'm trembling right now in anticipation of hate coming my way for this article. If you want to attack me, you should look no further than at
the article I wrote about the subject matter a few articles ago. Or look no further at my stance on the whole matter which many times I had brought up in various things I do. The plots of my films
Moria's Race and
I'm Not Even Human directly or indirectly deal with the subject matter at hand.
Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )
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An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of
freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all
4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by
@Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.
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Blue Steel 1990 is the seed that grew into the reason Avatar didn't win best picture
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So it's 1990 and
Kathryn Bigelow writes and directs an action thriller about a police officer. The police officer is female and the movie almost refuses to sexualize her. Bigelow casts a nice half-Jewish girl
Jamie Lee Curtis. And pretty much the whole movie, not a single shot of her emphasizes or admires her body ( apart from one sex scene where we see a very erotic closeup of her stomach ). Making that movie technically feminist. Few years later, in 1994, as
James Cameron ( who was married to Bigelow between 1989 and 1991 ) is trying to find the actor to play the wife in his film
True Lies. He is reminded of
Blue Steel by Bigelow. And decides to cast Jamie Lee Curtis in his film. Giving us that very strange, almost pornographic scene where she does a very erotic strip-tease scene with
Arnold Schwarzenegger. More than a decade later, in 2009, both Bigelow and Cameron make a movie. And both of those movies are nominated for the best picture. Yet Bigelow takes home the price. Did Cameron lose due to his pussy curse?
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