Yes, could be - although I am not sure that, seven years old, it would have been in such sophisticated terms.

As a kid, I was viscerally terrified of pools without water: or pools with water, but no people in them. (No problem otherwise - regular swimmer!)

Maybe I then felt another border?

Peopled versus the unpeopled? Or the functional versus the void?

Good luck with your book! I think it'd scare me.

Well, now I think I know where the inspiration came from for the look of Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill.

I get the 'subversive' aspect you've tightly identified and detailed. As for masterpiece though, is that enough to elevate the movie from 'precisely executed intelligent aura-subversive monster-action movie' to masterpiece? Be curious to know what takes the movie from good to great in your view.

And yet what Batman Begins does is define, masterfully, who Bruce Wayne is underneath.

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