Bloody England.Richard Alleva's attempt to understand Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill--Volume 1 ("About a Boy," December 5, 2003) ran aground a·ground adv. & adj. 1. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore. 2. early when he limited his scan to video art and schlock schlock also shlock Slang n. Something, such as merchandise or literature, that is inferior or shoddy. adj. Of inferior quality; cheap or shoddy. Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. flicks. More instructive historical models for Kill Bill can be found in the Senecan tragedies popular during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. The deliberate, repeated, compulsive slaughter in Kill Bill appears less gratuitous and self-indulgent when compared to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedie or John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. From Reservoir Dogs forward, revenge is the conscious, explicit motive for violence in Tarantino's films, just as it is in these tragedies. Like him or not, Tarantino is horrifyingly hor·ri·fy tr.v. hor·ri·fied, hor·ri·fy·ing, hor·ri·fies 1. To cause to feel horror. See Synonyms at dismay. 2. To cause unpleasant surprise to; shock. in tune with our criminal times. Surely our society is no less brutal and bloody than that of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. RICHARD OSTERMANN Tempe, Ariz. |
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