The The miracle-film of the decade: a conversational roller-coaster.

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2000)

There are many great movies that I've seen, truly. But no movie like this one has become part of my life, like a true friend that you love to spend time with, from time to time, as `Pulp Fiction' did. Why? Is it a miracle? After all, it has nothing kinetically special: no news and dazzling fx, no strange location, no huge names starring (except for Willis, only a thick bunch of excellent `almost stars', and Travolta was no longer high-rated before PF), no outrageous sex or violence scenes. But it has the Word. Quentin Tarantino would rather NOT make any other movie after this: it is inevitable that now the audience expectations are set on PF, and nothing (I mean nothing) will be ever even equal to it. It has the Word. Yes, it has It. The story structure is a round architecture, making everyone unable to re-tell it in the exact order, if asked to.	Yet, the Word. Each and everyone script line is so sharp and inspired to turn the whole movie into a conversational roller-coaster. All characters, even the most marginal ones, have memorable lines to tell: those lines are filled with all the selfishness, the greed, the fear and the human weaknesses that we all embody in our ordinary life; only, they are spoken exactly like we have always dreamed to speak, without ever have been able to, at least at the right time. Everything is realistic in this movie: everything except the speeches. It doesn't really matter whether they are spoken by people far less than ordinary or not. They are the real kinetic magic of the film, and I'm not surprised knowing how many merchandising pieces have been sold bearing (some of) the most significant lines spoken by characters. The Word, along with the sublime a-morality of the telling, along with the masterful close-ups, along with the subtle depiction of violence (much less shown than suggested), along with the carving of the most realistic villains ever captured on grotesque cinema; the Word and all of this together make this two hour and a half running movie one of the milestones of the decade.