Sunday,
Oct. 20, 2003.
Skipped: Church today.
Grateful for: The Corean movie posters Kevin brought
back for me.
And the stories, as well.
SWORDS HOWEVER NEVER GET TIRED
Uma Thurman is the only woman on the planet who can look attractive with flaring nostrils as huge as hers.
AMY: "From now until I have the baby, we have to set aside a day each week where just you and me go out."
ME: "Um, okay. What's this about?"
AMY: "Once I have the second baby, we won't be able to spend any time alone together."
ME: "Oh… How about today? Does seeing Kill Bill count?"
AMY: "Yeah."
ME: "Cool."
Theatre parking lot.
AMY: "So is there any romance in this movie?"
ME: "Uh ... hmm ... no. It's more of a revenge movie. She goes around killing these people who tried to kill her."
AMY: "Why'd they try to kill her?"
ME: "They don't really tell you in this one. She was at her wedding. And pregnant at the time."
AMY: "Oh."
I guess you don't really need a better reason to kill everyone than that.
I heard on NPR that the most frequent cause of death of pregnant women is death by murder (not car accidents as is usually the case in that age range) - and almost always by the father of the unwanted baby, or a jealous partner. The report mentioned that many women think that getting pregnant will save a strained relationship, when in reality it has a higher chance of getting them killed.
I think the best acting scene in Kill Bill was when The Bride (Uma) wakes up and realizes she has lost her baby. The way she cries, grimaces, mouth agape, that silent howl. It's not the way one cries when you break up with your high school sweetheart or get dumped in the first round of The Bachelor or even when (if) you get your arm lopped off. That's how you cry when you lose someone who was a part of yourself forever.I've cried like that - once. Several years ago, past midnight, in a shower stall at the hospital while I was on call. I swallowed a lot of shower water then, I remember.
Somehow I doubt I am the only person who has had that same experience in that particular shower stall. File under occupational hazard.
The (as) funny (as can be expected) thing is, I wasn't in love or anything with the girl I cried for then. I didn't even find her attractive in that way. I was her friend and I had the belief that I could save her, despite herself.
Like I said, you cry like that when you lose a part of yourself forever.
The second best scene was when Lucy Liu's character tells everyone what the price is for bringing up her mixed heritage in a negative manner. Who knew this martial arts inspired film would so aptly exhibit the hapa rage? Made me all warm inside.
I've also come to realize that Lucy Liu's coolest scenes in the movie all include shots showing her feet.
ME: "So what'd you think?"
AMY: "I can't believe I have to wait until February to see the next one."
ME: "It wasn't too shocking or violent for you?"
AMY: "I thought it was funny."
ME: "The only part I was 'shocked' by, was in the beginning scene with Vivica (A.) Fox, and that (SPOILER ALERT!!) cereal box. I was thinking - I would have been dead right there. That really took me off guard."
(As if I would have survived the wedding massacre, the head shot, and the knife fight earlier.)
AMY: "I knew it was a set up. I mean, what mother makes breakfast cereal for their kid after school?"
ME: "Hmm. … I would have been so dead."
Mommy's intuition is a mofo.
(Then there's the name on the cereal box, but still.)
A couple nights later while Amy is watching The Shawshank Redemption for the thirtieth time. Just before Tim Robbins' character (SPOILER ALERT!!) escapes.AMY: "The first time I saw this, I knew he switched the shoes and was about to escape. His shoes sounded different."
ME: "I don't hear any shoes."
AMY: "We were talking when you could hear them."
ME: "Who listens to shoes in a movie?"
Women and details. So yeah, I should listen to her when it comes to spending more alone time together.
Oh, and Amy actually looks kind of cute when she flares her nostrils too.
(My head is really not this big. The new haircut makes my hair stand straight up for some reason. Sun Su wanted his mommy in this one. Tough luck, sweetkins.)
