有关超人的对话

这部电影给我印象最深是结尾部分：女主角 Kiddo （Uma Thurman 饰）和 Bill 之间那段有关超人的对话。当时的感觉是，大家都是看漫画，怎么 Bill 就有如此深刻的洞察（或者更准确的说，是编剧的洞察）。为什么我看漫画就只是看个热闹。

Bill 和 Kiddo 之间的对话原文见下。当时的情况是，Bill 使毒镖打伤 Kiddo，然后慢条斯理的开始讲他有关超人的理论：

美国有一系列有关 superhero 的漫画，比如蝙蝠侠，蜘蛛侠。而其中，唯超人与别者不同。举凡 superhero, 都是有本我和超我之分。如蜘蛛侠，其本我是 Peter Parker. Parker 是个正常人。他需要穿上蜘蛛侠的外衣，才成为具有超能力的 superhero.

而超人正是在这一点上与众不同。超人自生而来便是超人。他不需要什么额外的帮助（比如道具，服装）帮助他成为超人。恰恰想反，超人是穿上常人的衣服后，伪装成为一个常人，一个懦弱，胆小的常人。超人的本我是个 superhero, 而他的“超我”反而是有着种种缺陷的，与你我同的人。

当年 Kiddo 因为怀孕（是Bill的孩子），而决定洗手去过正常人的生活。她到一个小镇，准备结婚。而Bill 尾随至，出手杀掉 Kiddo 未婚夫全家。

Bill 想告诉 Kiddo 的是，Kiddo 的本我是一个杀手，这是她无法改变的。她可以隐姓埋名去尝试普通人的生活，但她内心中，杀手的本性不会改变。

Bill 所没有说，而电影也没有给出结论的是，如果 Kiddo 真的隐姓埋名开始新的，普通人的生活，相夫教子，她是否会快乐。Bill 的意思似乎是否定的。我理解这也是为什么 Bill 要出手灭门她未婚夫的动机 - 而并不是因为 Kiddo 的背叛。Bill 仿佛有替天行道的意思。或者，Bill 其实是出手解救 Kiddo 于一个她自己并不会开心的生活，仿佛我曾经（不成功的）劝说朋友不要去投行工作。

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[Bill 与 The Bride/Kiddo 之间在对决前的对话. 来自 imdb]

Bill: As you know, l'm quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology... The mythology is not only great, it's unique.

The Bride: [who still has a needle in her leg] How long does this shit take to go into effect?

Bill: About two minutes, just long enough for me to finish my point. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race. Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton.

The Bride: Aso. The point emerges.

Bill: You would've worn the costume of Arlene Plimpton. But you were born Beatrix Kiddo. And every morning when you woke up, you'd still be Beatrix Kiddo. Oh, you can take the needle out.

The Bride: [does so] Are you calling me a superhero?

Bill: I'm calling you a killer. A natural born killer. You always have been, and you always will be. Moving to El Paso, working in a used record store, goin' to the movies with Tommy, clipping coupons. That's you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee That's you tryin' to blend in with the hive. But you're not a worker bee. You're a renegade killer bee. And no matter how much beer you drank or barbecue you ate or how fat your ass got, nothing in the world would ever change that.