It is of some interest to note that the way in which Sigrid is eating her soup is not dissimilar to the way in which The Bride in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 tries to eat rice, when she’s sitting on the floor in that spartan room with the kung fu master Pai Mei, after days of serious hard training and punching her fist into a wooden wall without managing to punch through. The only thing The Bride has succeeded in doing is to use up all the strength in her fingers and arms. Uma Thurman sits there and tries to pick up some steaming rice with shaking chopsticks that she can’t even hold between her fingers because she doesn’t have the strength, and then she can’t get the few grains of rice that she manages to pick up with the chopsticks to her mouth because her arms aren’t working. What’s interesting is that Sigrid has not been through such physical and mental near-torture at the hands of a strict kung fu master with an absurd white beard that he throws over his shoulder, cackling with glee, every time The Bride fails to do what she’s trying to do, and yet Sigrid is having exactly the same problems getting food into her mouth. That’s how powerfully a person’s tense inner life can affect their external physiognomy!