O-Ren Ishii: Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords. You may not able to fight like a Samurai, but you can at least die like a Samurai.
A dream shared by the characters, the director, and the viewers. It is an overly romanticized version of the Nouvelle Vague, but come on, who doesn't want to romanticize Nouvelle Vague, especially if you're accompanied the most beautiful creatures in the world such as Louis Garre