Psychology of a Victim (Buried Alive)
"Show me a person who doesn't like Quentin Tarantino and I will show you who doesn't know anything about cinema". Quentin is probably one the best known directors in the world of all times. I wouldn't be mistaken if I called him a cult figure in film industry and his "Kill Bill" movie one of the most famous movie ever. It distinguishes from the other thanks to its own unique style and a tremedous amout of blood and violence. But that's what people like according to the movie's popularity. Or, the other possible reason is Uma Turman...
Oh, God, Yes, indeed...
Still "Kill Bill" is predominantly focused on violence, blood and that stuff. So it makes sense to analyze one of the most inhuman and outrageous, but, on the other hand, very stylish scenes in the history of cinema - th scene where Uma Turman's character is buried alive.
The main emphsis in this scene is made on sound. In fact, this scene is so uncommon because you'll never see a black screen during the entire minute in any other Hollywood movie. The reason why this scene keeps our attention during all this time is the sound - sound of emotions and actions that the audience can convert into visual image in their heads. That is so brilliantly made that there are no other directors that ventured to include such a scene in their movie.
At first, we see how nail are hammered in the coffin accompained by specific Tarantino's music that shows us a cold-blooded confidence of the murderers. It indicates all the hopelessness of the situation. Calm faces of people who are about to bury a human alive explicilty illustrate the atrocity of all the situation.
Finally, when the last nail is hammered in and the music stops as it can spoil all the impression and the magic starts. At first, we hear just an intermittent breath of Uma Turman who pants from the tears. It lasts for 10-15 seconds and vivdly shows us an animal fear. Then on the background we can hear a noise which indicates that the murderers move the griffin towards the grave and are about to put it inside it. We hear the sound of the wood rolling on the ground. It stops. Somebody laughs. the vioceless cry continues and then stops for a moment - a terrible waiting. We can imagine the feelings of the main heroine.There is no sound at all for a while. Then we hear something squeaks and... then something falls (griffin into the grave). The heroine realises that she is now below the level of the ground. A small pause. Then there is quick sound of some little metal thing bouncing from the wood. And next, there is the sound of the ground poured in the grave. The main heroine realises more and more that the helplessness of the situation and gives wat out emotions. The ground continues to fall down. We hear the cry. And then after approximately 15 seconds we finally have a chance to see her face as she turns on the flashlight. But the scene doesn't end we still hear the disticnt sound of the ground falling down on the grave. We can see a desparate look of Uma Turman and her flouncing eyes. We see her in agony.
The atmosphere is perfectly created using just the sound and nothing else. The atmosphere of desperation. All this background noise always gives us hints what is going on out there, so that we without seeing anything can visualize everything. The most interesting thing is that everybody has a different perception of the scene and the image inside the brain. Perhaps, all the scene was built in that way in order to strengthen the effect, because as we know our imagination is capable to draw much more frightful and horrible picture than any movie. The biggest advantage of the scene is that it matches the movie very well.
The scene is given from the point of view of the main heroine, so that we can fancy ourselves in this situation and produce the strongest possible effect on people's mind, to impress it by the animal cruelty.
In my opinion, this moment is amazingly made. It reaches its goal undoubtably. It expresses the proper amout of violence. It thrills the audience and draws its attention entirely.
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