Kill Bill Identity

In Kill Bill: Volume 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino, there’s a dialogue between Bill and Beatrix Kiddo, as known as Black Mamba, in which he discusses her true identity. He compares her to superheroes, more specifically Superman-Clark Kent, as he uses Kent to blend in with normal society. She attempted to live a normal life, although Bill suggests when Clark Kent wakes up in the morning he is Superman, not Clark Kent; such as when Beatrix wakes up in the morning, she is a killer, not a normal housewife. He proceeds to confirm this theory by asking a series of questions such as “did you think your life in El Paso, Texas would work?” to which she truthfully answers no. He then asks, “all the people you killed to get to me felt good did it?”

She exceeded where Kiddo could not, however, Bill’s Superman reference applies to her as well. When her and kiddo come face to face, she instantly becomes the deadly assassin that she once was. Kiddo even mentions that Bill states she was the best weaponist to handle an edge-weapon. Therefore, despite her becoming what Kiddo wanted, under the persona, she is still an assassin. The only person who stayed true to her social identity was O-Ren Ishii. O-Ren assassinated the man who murdered her parents by the age of ten. At the age of twenty, she became one of the top female assassins in the world. Soon after her time working under Bill, she rose as the head of the criminal mafia of Tokyo, Japan and had an assassin squad, Crazy 88, of her own. Therefore, in reference to Bill’s Superman analogy, she remained Superman instead of formulating an alter ego to fit in with modern

It shows a form of women empowerment in a male-dominated industry where women can defend themselves and be twice as good as men when it comes to being successful. By having Green and Kiddo face off, it shows the duality that women of being a mom and assassin, metaphorically speaking. Women do not have to just settle for performing under society’s norms and being just a mom and a wife, but something more. Therefore, demonstrating nonconformity against society norms and breaking that barrier between man and woman. When a woman reaches independence and sets her standards high, she becomes she is demonized. Most women exercise feminism, which practices equality for women and men, whether in social or financial standards. However, sexist men oppose feminist and discriminate them as an unequal thereby indicating woman lacks the ability to do what a man can do. When she steps out of the social convention, she becomes courageous and