Quentin's Masterpiece is still a classic!

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2003)

Pulp Fiction changed the way how movie buffs go to the movies; at first we had "The Godfather" in which it dealt with how organized crime was run, then "Taxi Driver" which showed how people can never figure out what is wrong with an individual; In "Pulp Fiction," what Quentin Tarantino manages to capture is how life itself is a comic book and how it affects everybody in life.
The film's prologue begins with a dialog conversation between Pumpkin(Tim Roth) and Hunny Bunny(Amanda Plummer) about robberies in various places: banks, liquor stores, gas stations, etc., except that nobody ever bothers robbing a restaurant for which they are insured and that customers carry a lot of cash. After the Prologue, we are introduced to two different characters; Jules Winfeld (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta), who are hit men in search of a briefcase by their boss Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) after being held hostage by a group of wanna-be gangsters that suffer the consequences after failing to answer questions by Jules.
The second part of the story is concentrated on John Travolta's character Vincent, as a heroin user, he buys drugs off his buddy Lance(Eric Stoltz)and has to take the boss's wife Mia Wallace(Uma Thruman) out to dinner in which Vincent is uncomfortable at first until Mia forces her guest to dance with her, and that is when both characters become attracted to each other(not literary, but more like friends). After dinner, they both go back to Mia's house where she is wearing Vincent's coat and notices the heroin in his jacket and mistakes it for cocaine. Now to get his boss's girlfriend alive, Vincent seeks the help of Lance in which he tells Vincent to force a needle in her heart in order to stay alive. (I'll leave the next part for you to discover).
The third story is the most weakest in my opinion, involving Bruce Willis's character Butch Coolidge, a boxer who made a bargain with Marcellus that if he loses, he gets to leave with $100,000. Unfortunately the plan backfires leaving Butch and his girlfriend on the run from the gangsters; which makes it more possible since his girlfriend forgot the watch that his father used in the war. Now with little time, Butch goes back to his apartment to get the watch and escapes from peril and sees Marcellus on the street. As Butch is trying to escape, Marcellus follows him into a pawn shop where they are capture by racist rednecks that have their fun with Marcellus...
I won't be giving out anymore clues to what happens, but let me assure the readers out there, Pulp Fiction is one hell of a ride. The film not only is a Renascence towards bringing back actors such as John Travolta, but it brought a new career out of Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thruman, and the director himself, Quentin Tarantino. Backed up with a great soundtrack, and numerous references to great movies, TV Shows and the world, Pulp Fiction is a classic by my book.