A movie of our times

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 1999)

Pulp Fiction is a movie of our times - fast moving, exciting but gratuitous and ultimately meaningless. This movie has pace! It moves along from the opening scene at great speed and it's never anything less than thrilling. There are stories within stories throughout the movie. Several funny moments. And many violent scenes. And that's my problem with this film. It seems to glorify (or at least casualise) violence. A kid's face is blown off by mistake - and our heroes only worry that his splattered brains spoils their hair. But it's all very entertaining - just a bit immoral and it doesn't really have anything to say except that Tarrentino has a fascination for meaningless violence. Entertainment value is 9/10. But I gave it 8.