i think tarintinos movies are about creation or recreation of family, and lost family--hes a little boy looking for his mother, i saw that in the band of brothers that marked resivor dogs, in the plot seekling a narative--in the hunny bunny/tim roth; in the dancing at jack rabbit slims; even in (esp. in ) how the boxer treats his girl--that scen, in the motel, with blueberry pancakes, the eroticism, the sadness and loss, is a complete and absolute refuting that tarintion doesnt care for women and doesnt care for anything but violence--it proves he is capable of honest intimacy.
jackie brown is an amazing movie, its hard and soft at the same time, it has some of the most haunting visuals, the writing is quick and surfs b/w shallow and deep. it has pam grier--and it was insane that she didnt get an oscar, because pam grier was hurt, wounded, but also looking for love, looking for a completion of family.
kill bill then, kill bill i had trouble w. i thot it was a fuck you movie, i was isolated because i didnt think of it as anymore then a formal excercise in genre, a oilipu (sp) game for explotation hacks--but then, she is looking for her father, she is murdered at her wedding, the whole movie then becomes about how women act in the world of men--and they are as tough, as brutal, as feeling and unfeeling--as real and as unreal as men. it is a grand femminist movie, and it is one of the few movies that i saw that explained the horror of rape, woman in the board room, woman as widows and orphans.(she may be called the bride, but she is a widow--and she makes people orphans and she makes people widows) (people as widows and orphans). it is also a fucking amazing movie formally, gorgeous, complicated, fracturede and seeking its own wholeness. (and its lack of wholenes,, the possiblity of sequels that do not happen...)
also, ling--who was a racist caricture in television and hollywood blockbusters, makes an accurate and emotionally raw performance, he sees things in actors that other directors have given up on. (travolata, forestor, ling, carradine)
its frustrating, b/c i find alot of these things in his source material have the complications, formal innovation and emotional sucker punching that tarintino has--but these films wont ever be in the london review of books.