Kill Bill: Vol. 1 4K 2003

To date, Tarantino is the only director who can mix the most ferocious cocktails of ideas and plots used thousands of times, skillfully weave into the narrative someone else's phrases and dialogues, and overlay borrowed music on top of everything. However, each time the output is something thermonuclear, comparable to the explosion of a multi-megaton bomb that makes you watch and rewatch the movie with your jaw dropped from pleasure.

'Kill Bill' is a collection of numerous movie fetishes of a guy from Tennessee: martial arts movies, samurai movies, anime, spaghetti westerns and probably a bunch of other things that mere mortals don't even know about. Tarantino's fourth film is by no means a parody of the above genres, it's a skillful and sophisticated tribute to the films Quentin loves and honors. He, like a small child who has reached his favorite toy, carefully and tenderly puts the frames from many pictures into a single whole, not forgetting to pay tribute to each director whose work has influenced him.

Four years ago, many people didn't like the fact that the movie was divided into two halves. They were partially right, as Quentin left such a cliffhanger at the end that there was no energy to wait months for the sequel to Bride Crusade. On the other hand, this breakdown allowed Tarantino to show an Eastern and Western revenge movie. Why doesn't Bride go straight to Bill and kill him? Because this is a samurai movie. The only way to be even here is 'I'll kill you, then go up to your daughter's room, kill her, wait for your husband, kill him, and only then will we maybe be even'. So before the Bride gets to Bill, she has to get even with everyone and anyone individually, 'and even if Buddha himself gets in her way, he will be chopped'.

Perhaps of all the Tarantino films released before 2005, 'Kill Bill' is his most unconventional. It seems to have his trademark elements - non-linear narrative, chic dialogues, pop-cult jokes, charismatic characters - but at the same time, few people would have thought that this guy is capable of shooting action scenes. The fights in the movie are not only unusually violent and painful for Western movies, but also beautiful, fast-paced and deadly. Each scene causes a storm of excitement and adrenaline: starting with the localized destruction of a separate living room, continuing with the bloody massacre in the 'House of Blue Leaves' and ending with a graceful, almost meditative and calm final fight. None of these scenes will leave any action fan indifferent.

Quentin was always generous with memorable dialogues/monologues for actors: even for tiny roles he offered some brilliant and memorable phrases. Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica Fox, Michael Parks, Sonny Chiba ... - good actors, but they never shone in the movies. But with Quentin, they all shine. They're all memorable. They all have at least one scene to immortalize their character forever.

For six years the world lived without Tarantino, and he persistently worked on the script, postponed filming because of Uma Thurman's pregnancy, and then gave out an atypical for himself movie, which may or may not like, but which certainly will not leave anyone indifferent.