Lighting the Flame

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

THE INNER LIGHT: Track Twelve

Song: L'arena
Artist: Ennio Morricone
Album: Il Mercenario Soundtrack
Quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

The first time I heard this song was in KILL BILL: VOLUME 2, arguably one of Tarantino's best films (and that's saying a LOT considering the quality of his work). It plays during the scene where The Bride (Uma Thurman) punches her way out of a coffin buried in the ground. I've never seen Il Mercenario, which is the movie that Ennio Morricone originally composed this incredible song for, but I'm sure it added as much to that movie as it did for Quentin's. I was going to focus on the graveyard scene for the images and quotes for this track, but felt called to go in a different direction entirely. May we always remember Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, understand them, and take comfort in them...for he was a Man of God and he was correct.