Kym and The Bride are similar characters as they are both
seeking revenge on numerous people with acts of violence. In “Kill Bill”, The
Bride commits revenge on her ex-colleges the “Deadly Viper Assassination Squad”
by brutally murdering all of the members and eventually (though not until the
second film) the leader of the Squad, Bill. Kym is seeking revenge on a gang
which her boyfriend used to be a part of, and we know she has intentions of
physically hurting them, as when she leaves to carry out her revenge, she grabs
a knife and places it in her bag. Both characters names are unknown until later
in the films, as this creates mystery in the characters, and also implies that
they could be anyone, and anyone could seek gruesome revenge in the right
situation. However a key difference is that Kym is seeking revenge on her dead
loved one, as the gang forced him into suicide, and The Bride is seeking
revenge for herself, as the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad tried to murder
her on the day of her wedding rehearsal. She is however, also committing
revenge for another as she believes her unborn child was murdered on the same
day and knows her future husband was. They both also have knowledge on the
methods they use to get revenge. The Bride was in the Deadly Viper
Assassination Squad, was in a relationship with the leader and spent numerous
months training with the Samurai Sword, the weapon of her choice. Kym has
connections to the gang who will have committed several crimes of physical
assault, and was dating Joe, a key member in the gang, who could have passed
information on to her. Both have similar weapons of choice, knives. While Kym
has a regular knife which would be used for stabbing, The Bride has a Samurai
Sword.
Joe /
Brooks (The Shawshank Redemption)
Joe and Brooks are similar characters as they both kill
themselves. They do this for similar reasons, neither can face life in the
“real world”, for Brooks, this is the world outside of Shawshank prison, he has
been in there for so long that he can’t adjust to life outside of it. For Joe,
this is a world where he is no longer a member of a gang. He is unable to live
with himself because of the crimes he has commit and the hurt he caused to
innocent people due to being in a gang. He also knows he will have to live a
life in constant fear of the gang, and does not want to do this. A key
difference is that Brooks’ choice to kill himself was entirely his own, no one
told him to or made him feel he had to. Joe however, while he does feel like
this is the consequence he deserves for his actions, is also pressured into
suicide by the gang, who hate him for leaving, and fear he will pass on the
gangs secrets. Another difference is that Joe’s suicide is at the start of the
film, and is the trigger for the main plot of the film, whereas Brooks’ is in
the middle, and we see his life before he wanted to commit suicide, and while
he was contemplating suicide, so we can understand why he has done it, however,
later on in “Sweet Revenge” we may see flashbacks from Kym or even the gang of
Joe, so we can understand what he did whilst in the gang that made him feel so
guilty, and we can see what the gang did to drive him to suicide. We sympathise
for both characters, even though we know that both are criminals, as Brooks was
in prison and Joe was in a gang.
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