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Mar. 18th, 2012 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabrinamariFor days I've had the urge to rewatch "Kill Bill" without understanding why. Now that I've had a chance to re-experience the end, I understand exactly why.
No urge is without its meaning. It just takes a little digging.
No urge is without its meaning. It just takes a little digging.
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Date: 2012-03-18 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-18 10:50 pm (UTC)Once you accept that fact, and understand that his films will inevitably have a large doses of gut-churningly painful violence, they are sometimes still worth watching.
For me they are worth watching because they are so often based in mythologies and metaphors, and I am always experiencing them from this level of being. So for me, the scene in which The Bride crawls out of her nursing home bed, kills her assailants and reteaches her legs how to walk is totally worth the horrible violence (also because I always watch movies with a pillow to hide behind, and I never watch the awful, violent scenes that I know will upset me anymore).
This metaphor for how to deal with shittiest aspects of life is very inspiring to me, and I think about it a lot when I am circling rough times in my head trying to figure out what to do next.
Sort of like that scene in The Matrix in which Trinity talks herself into getting up off the floor when she is paralyzed in terror---it embodies something that is realer than real and very powerful for me.
Because if a fictional character that never existed can overcome a terrible situation that has no basis in reality, OF COURSE I can overcome whatever actual terrifying challenges I am facing at the moment.
Of course! : )
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Date: 2012-03-19 03:35 pm (UTC)That is SO true! :-)
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Date: 2012-03-19 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-19 01:38 am (UTC)Aw honey, I don't wanna kill you. : )