Perspective - 5 Ways Kill Bill is Post Modern

Figure 1. - Movie Poster

Reasons why Kill Bill is post modern

Figure 2. - First shot of the list, O-ren is already dead by the time The Bride kills Vernita.

1. Kill Bill's story line isn't linear, it starts off with the 'death' of our protagonist and then her suddenly alive, coming back to kill Vernita Green, then going back 4 years to why she was murdered and how she ended up in a coma. The story resumes from her awakening, pre-Vernita Green's death and explains O-ren Ishii's backstory.

Figure 3. - O-Ren as a child

2. As O-ren's backstory is explained the whole style of the movie changes to a more Japanese Animated tone, which mixes up the whole style of the movie, judging by how it's told it's possible it's exaggerated to fit O-ren's experience with the amount of gushing blood that is revealed.

Figure 4. The Bride after the Openning Credits

3. The movie explores multiple Genres such as Japanese Cinema, Horror, Action and Western. At the beginning of the movie it already sets the tone for a black and white horror movie but as soon as the next scene rolls by it looks like any other full colour suburban set movie.

Figure 5. Fight scene between The Bride and the Henchmen

4. There is some Hyper-realism in parts of the film, including the fight between The Bride and O-ren's henchmen, it's unreal how she is able to overcome and defeat all of them and come out unscathed.

Figure 6. Airplane

5. Considering the movie was made around in 2003 when technical visual effects were evolving, Tarantino paid homage to physical effects using miniatures which completely went against the upbringing tradition of visual effects.

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Figure 1 - Kill bill - [Movie Poster]
Figure 2 - Kill bill - [Movie Still]
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