Masterpiece with non-linear intelligent story

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2009)

This artistic masterpiece does not have a linear story like in most of the movies.When Tarantino made this movie,he wanted you not just to enjoy the plot,but also to use your mind and construct the story from beginning to the end. He wanted you to think,not to be passive viewers. Scene in the end of movie with Vega (Travolta),Jules (Jackson)and burglars in restaurant is not the end of the story. The end of the story is scene when Butch (Bruce Villis)and his girlfriend leave Los Angeles on a motorcycle. This scene is put almost in the middle of the film. If you are not careful this film can easily delude you. There is a scene when Butch comes to his house to pick up something important to him and finds Vega in his home.He kills Vega,but we see Vega alive and with Jules in last part of movie. How? Because that scene in restaurant happened before scene when Butch comes to his house and finds Vega. Scenes when Vega and Jules come to Marsellus,their boss and Jules says that he is going to quit his job because of all that happened and Butch is seating and talking with Marsellus and scene when Marsellus is chasing Butch on the street and they are shooting at each other,that also happened after scene with robbery in restaurant. Simply,there is no linear story.You have to construct the story from beginning to the end in your head.This is one of many things that make this movie so intelligent and probably the best movie of 1990s,also one of the best films ever made (you can put it on list of 100 best films of all times).Acting and conversations in this film are almost perfect. Every character Vega (Travolta),Jules (Jackson),Marsellus (Wing Rhames), Butch (Villis),Mia (Thurman),Mr.Wolfe (Harvey Keitel),Pumpkin-Ringo (Tim Roth),Captain Koons (Chrisopher Walken),Honey Bunny-Yolanda (Amanda Plummer),Zed (Peter Green) and many others contribute to excellence of all stories in movie. Stories seem to be separated but they are all connected in some way as we see during a film. Soundtrack is furious.Especially opening melody of the movie.Iconic. Also melody in the end is excellent (Surf Rider). Or scene when Vega and Mia dance.Unforgettable.Or scene when Vega comes to Mia in her house and song "Son of a preacher man" is played. But all of that would mean nothing without enormous creativity and imagination that was used for this film when it was made. This movie is not just an artistic masterpiece, it has a point and message about unbearable lightness of existence. About how cost of negligence could be too high,and why life is something most precious that we have. It also have a dose of black humor and irony of life and death. Almost every scene is put where it belongs,and every conversation has some point.Story about human ego and presumption,about how life can be beautiful and terrible at the same time.And above all of that this film is i repeat my self masterpiece of creativity and imagination. For the end there is one scene when Butch returns to his girlfriend and she asks him where is her car. He answers that he crushed a car but he took a motorcycle.She asks whose motorcycle is that,and he answers that it belongs to Zed. She asks-"Who is Zed?" He answers-"Zed is dead". What a black humor funny rhyme.