Perspectives: Reasons Why 'Kill Bill' is Postmodern

Kill Bill Volume 1- Directed by Quentin Tarantino in 2003.

Reasons why Kill Bill is postmodern:

1. Does not follow a chronological order- starts with the killing of Vernita Green and then jumps back in time to four years earlier when the mass murder happens and the bride ends up in a coma. The film later jumps back in time to explain the origins of O-Ren Ishii.

   

   Fight with Vernita Green

2. The film uses techniques from multiple different film genres including Japanese cinema, horror and action. It also uses techniques from spaghetti westerns (a western film made cheaply in Europe by an Italian director.

   

   Horror genre

3. When the origins of O-Ren Ishii is explained it is shown using Anime which is a style of Japanese animation

   

   Anime scene

4. The film has elements that are seen as hyper-real, including the amount of people that the bride is able to overpower and kill/injure during the big fight without getting killed herself and the way blood spurts from her victims in a very unnatural and unrealistic way.

   

   All of the people she is able to kill/injure

5. The film references and takes inspiration from multiple other films, most noticeably 'Lady Snowblood' a 1973 Japanese action thriller in which a woman seeks revenge upon three people who killed her family. 

   

   Similarity to Lady Snowblood