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"Women Fight Back" - Film Festival Review: Kill Bill, vol. 1 Kill Bill Vol. 1 was the first movie introduced by the film festival. The movie featured mainly women as lead characters, who played the roles stereo-typically played by men. This extremely violent lighthearted comedy parodies Japan samurai fighting in a savage yet comical way. Leading the movie was Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu who prove to be the right women for the job. The women in these domineering roles play on all the stereotypes in film and the men even play cartoon-like roles. This film plays an important role and helps with the theme of the film festival, which is fighting back against social norms and victimization. In this film Uma Thurman was victimized, raped, her family killed off, and had her child killed. She moves throughout the film after waking up from a long coma to get revenge on the group that did this to her. What is the reason for her fighting back? As a theme she is fighting back for all the women that are victimized in some way. It's a comical and violent film to celebrate women, in an exchange of roles from what we may normally see on this big screen. Uma Thurman fights gracefully with frying pans, flying daggers, samurai swords and Knives. And interesting selection of weapons, considering the first weapons is a frying pan and fight in a kitchen. The leading women roles in the film get to avenge the deaths of the chauvinistic men who have wronged them. Lucy Liu gets to kill the man who rapes her and kills her parents, and Uma Thurman gets to kill the men who rape her in the hospital. This film takes a very interesting look at women fighting back and plays it in a very interesting role changing way. |