Tarantino's Redemption In The Film Kill Bill

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After Tarantino created three successful and critically acclaimed films, he started to work on his first two-part film, Kill Bill. The movies follow the story of Uma Thurman as the Bride, a former assassin who attempted to escape her violent life in favor of a more typical one. She manages to find love, and engaged, but on the day of her wedding rehearsal is attacked by her former gang, the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. They kill everyone present except for the Bride, who is shot in the head and left in a coma for four years. Upon waking up confused and convinced that her child was killed alongside her fiance, she sets out to kill those involved with the wedding crash. Unbeknownst to the Bride her quest for revenge is inadvertently a story of redemption that continues to fit into Tarantino's trend to support characters that attempt to redeem themselves. At the start of the film, the Bride’s goal is made clear: she is going to kill everyone involved in the wedding crash. Most importantly, she will kill Bill for ordering the DVA Squad to kill her. She targets Vernita Green first, on arrival they immediately break into a fight, but they stop once Vernita’s daughter arrives from school. Although she wishes to kill Vernita, she decides to wait for her …show more content…

But, unlike other war movies their methods are barbaric and brutal, this is likely due to Tarantino wanting the film to be from a different perspective in which Jewish men had the opportunity to fight back against the Nazis. Their hyper violence allows them to strike fear into the Germans and often times the Basterds are seen charging in as they are not afraid. The best example of this is towards the end of the film when two members of the Basterds, Ulmer and Donowitz, break into Hitler’s box, kill him, and proceed to shoot into the