Pulp Fiction

Rating: 9/10 (17 January 2019)

Cheap and Wet Fiction with some Pulp
A must see movie with multiple award, Pulp Fiction is a dramatic crime movie with many humorous scenes known for its many iconic scenes and well known faces that anyone would know of regardless of age.
The movie begins in the city of Los Angeles at a small diner joint called Hawthorne's Grill, a couple having a nice breakfast in the morning soon turns sour when the couple decides to rob the breakfast joint. The scene soon fades out and another scene comes up, two hit men are having small discussions with each other about various things such as the name of foods and suddenly changing the topic to when is it ok to murder someone they even discuss about the legality of drugs in other parts of the world . A few more scenes are shown to us after these first two, a lady surviving a near death experience, two dudes pulling up to a bar in only t-shirts and boxer shorts, a boxer on the run after breaking a deal, and even a man waking up to a car pulled up with blood all over and, all of these moments manage to link together like cogs being turn.
Quentin Tarantino's use of different of multiple points of view and tying everything together at the end a step at a time helps movie watchers finally know the whole story of the movie while keeping them in the dark as to why the movie plays out with different moments with no certain order. Despite how well the scenes were done and played by the actors, the little amount of development of the characters and the missed opportunities of the scenes shows that the movie is lacking although I still enjoyed it for many other things.
Tarantino's choice of actors to fulfill the portrayal of characters in the movie like Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta as the two hit men Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega, Tarantino is able to utilize their acting ability to their full potential that one of their scenes becomes a very memorable moment in movie history that the scene is used on many things outside of the movie genre like shirts, posters and even memes. I've seen many shirts that combined the members of the band Daft Punk replacing Vincent and Jules as they hold up their pistols as they were about to fire, even recently a meme became popular that was a reference to Samuel L. Jackson scene as he is about to see Quentin Tarantino's character, he says; "S**t N***o, that's all you had to say. Speaking of characters I find it enjoyable when movie producers include themselves in the movie either as primary or secondary roles, or even cameos like Stan Lee's many cameos in his own movies like in his most recent movie Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, leaves me satisfied. Seeing Tarantino have a role in his own movie tells me I will like the movie a lot. If there is something I find lacking for the movie would be the amount of time characters have, I really like seeing character development in a movie and although the acting in Pulp Fiction was amazing I was sad that I wouldn't see anymore of the character or what will happen to the character at the end of the movie.
Another key strength of the movie would be music and editing, the music used in certain parts of the film plays a big part in the movie, the scene with Vincent and Jules at the apartment goes very well with the moment that people are remembered of this scene from the movie when they hear it from somewhere else that isn't they movie, the music also goes well with dance scenes, the one scene where Travolta's character and Uma Thurman's character begin dancing I think the music had a part in making the now iconic dance scene very noteworthy and well known, music plays a more supportive role in movies because it can manipulate the emotion of the audience. The editing of the movie is another supportive part of movies, although the editing wasn't realistic, the cheesiness of the editing can give the movie humorous moments, like when the gun was fired and the car was splattered with blood, combine this and the panicking of both Vincent and Jules you can get a pretty funny scene from the movie. One thing I wish the movie included were extra scenes that explained some moments in the movie that left me wanting answers like the many scenes with the suitcase, I will never know what was inside the case unless I searched it online of watch a video and honestly I wouldn't want to do that to myself.
Pulp fiction is a movie you definitely want to watch when you are old enough since the movie is rated R and even if you do watch it at a younger age you may not get the humor of Tarantino. After watching this movie you will get the many references to the movie whether you see them on the internet, on shirts or if you're just walking through the store because this movie will be marked as one of the best movies of its time and I think it is deserving of its many awards.