A movie that has deserved the title of "The Best"

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2005)

"Pulp Fiction" is a masterpiece, a pure masterpiece. There are not many movies that can be watched over and over, and which still have a fresh feeling every time. "Pulp Fiction" happens to be one of those movies and by far the greatest of them, the best movie that has been yet made.
Giving a one movie the title of "the best" is a gutsy thing to do, but I'm convinced that ""Pulp Fiction" deserves that title. A movie like "The Godfather" is an excellent piece of a criminal drama. It's intense, distressing and respectable movie in it's category, the best of it's genre. But the reason why it can't be the best of them all, is the reason it has a clear genre. The same goes for "Memento", "Psycho", "Star Wars", "Indiana Jones", "Pianist", "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and many other movies that represent the best of their genre. All of those movies has a power to provoke strong emotions from its viewer. That is if the viewer happens to enjoy movies from the particular genre.
What makes "Pulp Fiction" different from any other movie is the fact that is has no genre. It's comedy, drama, thriller, action, crime, et cetera. Pulp Fiction is everything and it feels like everything. Because of that anyone can see the movie and love it. While watching "Pulp Fiction", all kinds of emotions start running through. A viewer feels joy, sorrow, excitement, confusion, comprehension and a large set of other emotions. It's also interesting that even though this movie makes its viewer to go through so intense set of different emotions, it manages to create a perfect equilibrium with everything. After the movie is over, the experience is like after no other movie. The viewer has no central emotion, all the human emotions are active. Love, hate, happiness, sorrow, excitement, confusion are only the tip of the iceberg about the emotions that are felt at the same time. Really strange mix of emotions, impossible to explain, but something that must be experienced.
Of course that doesn't apply for everyone. There's always a minority of people who can't feel the same as the majority does. When it comes to "Pulp Fiction" the reason for not feeling the same way could be it's violent theme, it's sexual content, it's nonlinear storytelling, anything that just doesn't isn't acceptable in the eyes of the viewer. But because this movie is a mix of so many different movie genres, it's the movie that will most likely give anyone the best movie experience that he or she has ever experienced.