Over the course of its 110 minute runtime, viewers are pummelled by intricate fight scenes, lost limbs and a body count to rival Rambo as Uma Thurman exacts her revenge against former colleagues. It's an incomparable feeling, and one almost buried in the blood-soaked kung-fu homage that is Kill Bill: Vol. It boils over once more, your pint now a bitter cocktail of sadness and rage. There's a sharp intake of breath, quickly followed by a rapid Vietnam flashback to finer times and an eventual fallout and long-forgotten fury. For as you go to fulfil the silent oath of an unspoken round, you lock eyes with someone across room – eyes that are still too Medusan to gaze into. Someone's even cancelled their Uber home. You're enjoying a few drinks, a safe space with safe friends.
Or perhaps it's the first half of Tarantino's revenge epic, 'Kill Bill', where digital style editor Murray Clark recognises the unique grief of a lost and severed friendship. It might be a plot that's so bad it's good, a scene which deserves more interrogation or a director's underrated gem.
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