K ill Bill forever cements Quentin Tarantino's reputation as a cinematic mad scientist, pouring disparate chemicals into a beaker and cackling manically as they pop and fizz. The resulting concoction becomes moviedom's strangest masterpiece: It's goofy, gory, and gleefully indulgent. But Tarantino also achieves something that's both quietly miraculous and deceptively difficult: Over the course of Bill's…
