Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 08:56:59 +1100 (EST)
From: "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au>
Subject: Re: FW: Beckett and Duchamp and Nabokov


> To change the subject entirely:  What are people's thoughts with 
regard to Kill 
> Bill?  

Geof,

QT (cutey, ha!) has apparently said something about gender and the 
positioning of the Uma character, in an interview that haven't seen or 
read. If he did focus on constructions and expectations of gender, 
especially in the context of playing or performing social roles, I 
think it will only affect those viewers that can be confronted, that 
is, expect there to be gender roles. Are such people going to be seeing 
the flick? 

Like the interplay between kids (I am thinking the daughter at the 
start and the gang member you gets a 'swording') and Uma's character as 
somehow an ironic take on 'mothering', or her and buck-fuck as some 
critique of the allegedly passive feminine, or lucy liu's C's troubling 
of the 'little steps' nexus of ethnic-feminine for her play of the 
yukuza crime boss, or the shift that occurs to the meaning of 
the 'Pussy Wagon' when Uma's C is driving (riding?) it. 

The blood and gore? Kind of like japanese anime-style, particularly the 
way blood blossoms or explodes from wounds, two TV movie reviewers over 
here said 'it was beautiful' hmmm, I like the blackness of the blood on 
her jumpsuit while she was fighting in the snow, the rest was becoming-
camp. 

Music was cool! As you would expect...

Ciao,
Glen.


-- 
PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney