"Intoxicating. Tarantino's revolutionary picture is one of paramount influence. Pulp Fiction is one of the greatest films ever made"

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2006)

Pulp Fiction (1994)
TOP 10 - 1990s
Top 50 - All Time
Pulp Fiction is an exuberantly joyous introduction of Quentin Tarantino into mainstream film-making.
"On the surface is a scruffy, violent and vulgar crime drama, but beneath it there all elements of comedy and just about everything else..."
Directed in a highly stylised manner and incorporating three intertwining stories in non-chronological order, along with an outrageously good yet extremely irrelevant script, Pulp Fiction re-writes cinematic history, with its 'neo-noir' attitudes.
Tarantino crafts a modern yet vintage cinematic masterwork that is as unorthodox as unorthodox can be. Here is a daring, young, new director not afraid to push cinematic boundaries, who creates a supremely influential picture that entertains, enthrals and leaves many in absolute awe.
Pulp Fiction can be characterised as aimless: a group of lowlife, low key gangsters that talk about foot massages and alternative names of fast food burgers in other countries, while carry out dull yet bloody crime tasks. This film is the Macbeth of the modern fast food culture, an obscenely poetic yet vulgar film that is so unconventional yet so darkly humorous, with a cast that drives the film's engines for two and a half ingenious hours of marvellous and vivacious cinema.
Tarantino's camera-work is praiseworthy, adapting an amateurish, scruffy look yet showing us exactly what we want to see, but leaves so much to the imagination. It is very interesting that we have generally received this film so highly. In fact we consider it as one of the best of all time and it probably is. Irrelevant yet so beautifully rejuvenating picture that is greatly entertaining, mystical and funny.
An example that a film can be made with such limited resources and be so successful both critically and financially. Pulp Fiction drains the imagination, it uses it as its tool of success. This is a cinematic triumph, a milestone in the history of film. Tarantino is a genius; a mad genius but still a classified genius!!!
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