FINALLY, A FILM THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ENJOY!

A couple of weeks ago, Quinten Tarantino was encouraging parents to take their kids to see his new film, Kill Bill. see story

Last night, I finally had a chance to this this movie. In the opinion of the Lord Chancellor, it is, undeniably, a masterpiece.

Seeing it gave me an idea as to why Tarantino might make these bizarre comments. It goes like this: he's our age. He was a kid in the 70's and he suffers from quite a bit of nostalgia for that time. Do you remember when A Clockwork Orange came out? and it was considered to shockingly violent that, (as the hype went) if kids were exposed to it, or even exposed to adults that were exposed to it, that our society would surely degenerate into a free-form bloodbath?

I don't know about you, but that's how I remember it. And I wonder if Tarantino isn't nostalgic for a time when violence in movies could be scandalous, and hopes that his movie can prevoke the same reaction, if not on its own "merits", then with a little help from his public comments.