“I steal from every movie, ever made” –Quentin Tarantino.

Dis­claimer :

If you have the habit of faint­ing at the sight of blood, pls skip this ‘bloody’ review :)

Malay­alam film indus­try [ Idhu verenga :) ] used to have music direc­tors who are more towards the melody types of songs. JASSIE GIFT jolted the entire indus­try with LAJJAVADHIYE with his sand paper voice. The audi­ence didn’t know how to react and they didn’t want to ignore, also. They enjoyed it to the peak and the song / MD was admired very much. In film his­tory, there’s always been a rebel­lious per­son in any cat­e­gory of art. Like MRRadha in Tamil indus­try. On the out­look, we hes­i­tate to enjoy them and we admire them per­son­ally. It’s not only their per­for­mance but also their per­cep­tion. These kinds of artists dif­fer highly from the crowd. Sim­i­larly in Hol­ly­wood, Quentin Taran­tino is one such extremely dif­fer­ent story teller. Like Mani­rath­nam, he is self taught.

We are used to sto­ries that have a finite struc­ture. How­ever, it’s not nec­es­sary that all movies hold this pat­tern. For eg. 21 grams, Rasha­mon, Andha Naall. These type of sto­ries starts from the mid­dle and con­nects dif­fer­ent events to form a story. Some­times instead of a story, a film ends up with a just a col­lec­tion of events. Quentin Taran­tino is of this strange cat­e­gory. This film involves extreme vio­lence, pro­fan­ity, pop music, lengthy dia­logues and sud­den shock­ing moments. No won­der, Quentin Taran­tino liked “The killing”, a Stan­ley Kub­er­ick movie. [ Sk is another strange direc­tor — never come across a movie called Clock­work orange — Satir­i­cal drama film ].

When I watched “Reser­voir Dogs” [ Quentin’s first film ], I was con­fused whether to fol­low this Direc­tor or not. I liked as well as dis­liked the movie. Yes ! The film was about a dia­mond rob­bery and the rob­bery was not shown at all.[ appa enna dhaan­daa kaat­nanga :) ]. But his nar­rat­ing style attracted me very much and I started fol­low­ing his films. PULP FICTION was the best of Quentin Taran­tino. I enjoyed watch­ing DEATHPROOF. The beauty is none of his films were told in a lin­ear fash­ion [Except JACKIE BROWN ].

KILL BILL

Don’t get sur­prise to see that it’s a plain revenge story with styl­ishly exces­sive vio­lence. The bride [ Uma Thur­man ] is attacked by her ex-squad mem­bers and the chief in her wed­ding. They kill every­one and bru­tally beat Uma to almost closer to death. Some­how, she sur­vives and takes revenge. Adhaan kad­hai. The total movie length is 4 hours and hence KILL BILL 2 was released.

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The film starts with this phrase on screen. “Revenge is a dish best served cold”.

Though it just looks like a sim­ple Chi­ran­jeevi or Suman movie, the way it is taken is inter­est­ing. I still have a dou­ble mind whether to say the vio­lence shown is good or not [ Like Sub­ra­ma­nia­pu­ram ] but I can eas­ily say that it’s the most shock­ing shots. The film com­bines mul­ti­ple cat­e­gories of films styles like mar­tial arts, mix of US and Japan­ese cul­tures, Char­ac­ters with Samu­rai attrib­utes, shock­ing level of vio­lence and x.

As I said, on the out­look once can ignore this film eas­ily but as a fan, I liked the styles used in the movie. The direc­tor flu­idly used ani­ma­tion in telling a par­tic­u­lar flash­back. It’s about the Amer­i­can girl becom­ing a Don in Tokyo and that episode is shown in ani­ma­tion style [ Manga comics with whoosh­ing blood ]. The fights are chore­o­graphed styl­ishly with per­fect tim­ing and the visu­als are as clear as a crys­tal. The tempo used in the revenge can be used as a com­plete ref­er­ence for our Indian action film [ Hero walk­ing on a glass floor shown from low angle — Watch what’s writ­ten on Uma’s shoe :) ].

Quentin Taran­tino is a great fan of music, comics and films. Every shot in his film has almost all the men­tioned ele­ments. The char­ac­ters in other films — they talk a lot, dif­fer­ent opin­ions, and dif­fer­ent music. One needs to be so famil­iar with the his­tory of music and cul­ture in US to under­stand his nar­ra­tion to a great extent [ Remem­ber sub-title is just a translation ].

Con­clu­sion :

Never ever watch a QT movie with fam­ily or kid.

:)
Toto.

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