tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post4478070716564167545..comments2023-09-19T10:07:03.906-04:00Comments on Original Mind: I won't Kill BillUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-60352630716866300622016-02-27T19:48:53.472-05:002016-02-27T19:48:53.472-05:00Maybe they enjoyed it because Kill Bill is a Buddh...Maybe they enjoyed it because Kill Bill is a Buddhist allegory.<br /><br />http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/blooming-lotus-redemption-and-spiritual-transformation-in-kill-billAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448687427184585735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-68509656113652845682013-03-05T03:31:37.993-05:002013-03-05T03:31:37.993-05:00I definitely believe that garbage in is garbage ou...I definitely believe that garbage in is garbage out. The ones I avoid are crime dramas like CSI and all their clones. Watching them, you'd think there were serial killers everywhere, and it's simply not true. In fact there are so few serial killers that we know them all by name! These shows increase fear, as do horror movies, which I completely avoid. I have enough of my own real fears to take on someone else's fake ones. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02733474518857971471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-87270906685324622532010-11-12T09:25:14.059-05:002010-11-12T09:25:14.059-05:00I think it really comes down to your own choice. Y...I think it really comes down to your own choice. You have to ask yourself, "does this follow the path?"<br /><br />Personally I have found, since becoming a Buddhist, that these types of movies don't entertain me anymore, they always leave me longing for something more fulfilling. They almost repel me. I'm no movie snob, I do still enjoy a good movie now and then, but now I'm more critical, more mindful of what I'm watching. This goes for TV too.<br /><br />Like I tell my kids, garbage in, garbage out. If you listen to your own inner Buddha, you will find the way for you.Matt "Lefty" Ediehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07020481532522210993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-80988747434988939092010-11-11T19:29:52.504-05:002010-11-11T19:29:52.504-05:00I've been asking myself the same thing. The ot...I've been asking myself the same thing. The other day, my Dharma teacher told us that the precept of refraining from intoxicants should also be understood as refraining from anything that is intoxicant, not just chemicals. He gave as an example: music that alters mind's natural state. <br />I'm having trouble accepting this (lol) I enjoy listening to Marilyn Manson (:o yes, I know :P) and I enjoyed Kill Bill too. But I guess this is why it is called renounce...Isildilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10745655575736224572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-531567985325463302010-11-11T18:54:28.588-05:002010-11-11T18:54:28.588-05:00BTW, Uma Thurman's a Buddhist too!BTW, Uma Thurman's a Buddhist too!Dennis Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15768594614249854053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-48038483976740777472010-11-11T18:52:12.925-05:002010-11-11T18:52:12.925-05:00I totally hear you, and have thought about this to...I totally hear you, and have thought about this topic a lot. Once those images are planted in your mindstream, you can't get them out. At any rate, I agree with Adam that just asking the question and investigating it is good.<br /><br />Personally, I make a distinction between movies that are just gross and whose violence and gore are purely gratuitous, versus movies where (as Adam suggests) there's something else going on. In the former category I would put popular movies like "Saw" and "Hostel" -- the kinds of movies I have no interest in even seeing. But I would put "Kill Bill" in the latter category, along with "Fight Club" and "No Country for Old Men" and many other movies that were quite violent but whose violence was in the service of an actual message. (And it doesn't necessarily have to be a "deep philosophical" message...violence can even be funny sometimes, as Itchy & Scratchy cartoons demonstrate...if only because it shocks us and makes us realize how desensitized we have become, and we laugh as much at ourselves as we do at what's on the screen.)<br /><br />"Kill Bill" was a hilarious send-up of a campy genre of movies, and the violence in it was cartoon-like -- so it didn't bother me much. But then, I also happen to be a big fan of martial arts movies. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" would have to be in my top five movies of all time.<br /><br />A lot of it comes down to personal tastes and tolerance levels, which are really individual -- and I'm the first one to break my own rules. Everyone I know raved about what a good movie "There Will Be Blood" was, but I could hardly sit through it. The scene at the end where the despicable, evil-hearted main character beats to death another character with a bowling pin left me feeling sick for weeks. So completely gratuitous and vicious, without any redeeming qualities. Totally nauseating -- far more so than any of the stylized, comic-book meta-violence in "Kill Bill," which was really a form of parody.Dennis Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15768594614249854053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213937046537524165.post-14775931201661884292010-11-11T18:21:03.661-05:002010-11-11T18:21:03.661-05:00I think you're doing the right thing here, sim...I think you're doing the right thing here, simply questioning all of these things. I've done the same thing with the music I listen to as well as the movies I watch.<br /><br />But don't put Fight Club in the same category as Kill Bill. One (Fight Club) was well written and has deep philosophical undertones where the violence was really just in the background, and the other was a very lame attempt at art with no substance or message to deliver, which only served to glorify cinematic violence and martial arts movies.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09688546442746669587noreply@blogger.com