![]() It’s your baby.” Marriage? Children? A normal life? (Whatever that even means?) That’s not only gone but dead gone, and the hope for that settled-down future, the one often rammed down women’s throats from the day they are born, will later be seen splayed out on a chapel floor. At this moment, this is me at my most masochistic.” He shoots her before she can end her plea: “Bill. You know, kiddo, I’d like to believe you’re aware enough, even now, to know that there is nothing sadistic in my actions. He continues in a sinister yet soothing tone: “You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now if I wanted to. He stops at the blood-soaked bride and asks, “Do you find me sadistic?” We see his hand pat part of her face with a dapper handkerchief, the name “Bill” embroidered on the cloth, giving us a clue that this is not some regular man – this is a man with panache, charm, maybe even a dandy. ![]() We hear footsteps and then observe ominous, booted heels approaching on wooden ground – a man’s boots. ![]() She’s lying on a floor, we don’t know where just yet, but we see damp, straw-haired tendrils and a white veil comingling with blood and broken glass, her sweaty face looking up at the approaching horror. The first shot of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 1 is Uma Thurman’s beautiful, bloodied face, panting in terror. “That woman deserved better.” – Elle DriverĪ bride. I have only myself.” – Simone de Beauvoir “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.
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