This question gets asked
a lot. I've never seen it
answered, so here goes.
A film like Kill Bill
is surreal -- in movie terms,
that means it "admits"
it's a film, it's fake.
It -- and many modern films --
don't want their viewers
(to use art terms) to
"suspend disbelief." Rather,
post-modern movies
take viewers on "rides,"
give viewers genre thrills, and
do it with a wink.
On the other hand,
Gibson postures as if he
had been attempting
a "JFK" thing --
pseudo-documentary.
Cinema buffs, then,
judge Gibson's movie
not by comic book standards,
but seek realism.
And, to their eyes, don't
find it, but find surreal flash
offered as substance.
Cinema buffs see
hypocrisy -- in the film,
and the marketing.