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Starting from the end again. The events, scattered in a confused chronological disorder, are briefly summarized by the killer, just hours away from her real goal: to kill Bill.
Back to El Paso, on the day of the wedding rehearsal: the young bride exits the chapel, lost in thought, when the sound of a flute announces an unexpected meeting. Tarantino chooses to introduce us to the conversation with a beautiful frame: a black and white, the quintessential contrast, tells us that what we are about to witness is the millennial and perfectly balanced conflict between a man and a woman. The entire conversation is studied down to the smallest details: for every movement, there is an equal and opposite one, so that even cinematic fiction respects the ancient balance of existence.
If the red thread of 'Kill Bill' is revenge, as noted from the quote that opened the first volume and is explicit throughout the entire narrative, now the viewer is introduced to a second possible key to interpretation. We see the bride, who finally has a name, in her long journey of training: superheroes exist, but they must know humiliation, pain, and solitude to become who they are. They must be human.
One should ask whether all the strength that can be gained through exercise and perseverance can be dominated by human will, or if the superhero remains a slave to his own potential. Anyone can play with samurai swords, maybe kill someone in combat, and gain fame; anyone can come to not fear death, conforming to the warrior logic of the film naturally; but how many can, with the mere force of will, stop and say "no thanks, I'm not interested"? Is human strength truly limited to the animalistic tension towards power, to survive the daily struggle for existence? Is it not perhaps at the moment we make a choice, one that involves risks and might seem insane, like that of the most ruthless and dangerous warrior who gives up everything for a tiny embryo that hasn’t even come into the world, is it not in these paradoxical circumstances that we demonstrate the only invincible strength granted to us? Is it not by chance that the great master Pai Mei dies poisoned by the most ignoble of characters?
For a human being to reach the pinnacle of their essence, they must first "transcend god," not the one in the heavens, but the one they wish to become themselves, the one who stops at nothing; the superman who, mocking his own and others' conscience, in fact, strips himself of his own primary essence, turning into an ephemeral monument to efficiency and nothing more. The final conversation between Beatrix and Bill is one of those that leaves you breathless with intensity. To narrate or analyze it as profanely as I could would be ridiculous, and the same holds for many other scenes to which I have only made brief references.
The last thing worth considering is the "rebirth" of the heroine. The ruthless killer is dead forever, after 4 years of "gestation" and much revenge, the bride can allow herself a new life: having overcome human fragility, having overcome superhuman presumption, here is the arrival at the eternal dimension of earthly existence, in which warriors fight (the "roaring vengeful fury"), children emancipate from their parents (the bride, visibly disturbed by the influence Bill exerts on her, moves forward with her decisions, with respect and gratitude towards her ancient master, but above all with determination), females ensure the continuation of the species (Beatrix, "Mommy" in the end credits, renounces her man not for all the evil he has done to her, but already before, to bring her daughter into a clean, innocent world).
"The lioness has reunited with her cub, and all is well in the jungle"
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