Kill Bill is a American martial arts film from 2003, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film is iconic and recognizable all over the world. It features many elements in which it is Postmodern.
1. It's non linear narrative. It starts with her being "killed" by Bill, then cuts to opening credits. It then shows a fight with Vernita Green, and then jumps back in time to when she was attacked as a bride. The film continues to do this jumping back and forth at many times in the film.
2. The film mish-mashes multiple genres, including horror, action, samurai cinema and spaghetti westerns. It even features an anime sequence to show the backstory of one character, which in turn breaks the illusion of what we are watching, reminding us that this is in fact a film.
3. The anime sequence animated by Production I.G. features an obscene amount of blood. Perhaps because it is from O-Ren Ishii's memory, and a persons memory can often be exaggerated. Maybe this is how she told people it happened in the universe, because this is how she remembers it. The way in which the man who killed her father lights the fire is also exaggerated in this way.
4. The film has many hyper-real elements, including one of the ending scenes where she is able to kill and overpower many trained Japanese samurai/yakuza without getting killed herself. This scene was somewhat censored by making it black and white due to the amount of blood that comes from her victims.
5. The very final fight with O-Ren Ishii has music you would not expect in an action scene. Instead it is very peaceful. The environment also reflects this peacefulness, since it is white with snow. Its strange to depict a non peaceful moment as peaceful, especially considering the way O-Ren dies.
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