A movie deserving its name

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2005)

Quentin Tarantion's Pulp Fiction is a movie containing several stories which cross each other in one point or another.
Vincent Vega (John Travolta in his comeback role) is an assassin, who has just returned from Europe. He and his associate Jules (always wonderful Samuel L. Jackson) are doing a gig for their boss Marsellus (Ving Rhames). They gotta get back a briefcase, containing something precious.
Mia (uma Thurman)is a girlfriend of Marsellus, who is trusted in the care of Vincent in her night out.
Butch (Bruce Wills perhaps in one of his best roles) is an aging prize fighter, who has to make his one, last big fight.
And Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) and pumpkin (Tim Roth) are just two petty robbers, who are about to rob a café.
All these stories cut each other in someplace of the film, so it all isn't as random as it might sound like.
Dialogue is the key to this film: Tarantino has managed to write conversations about such common thing as giving someone a foot rub, making it interesting and full of views you wouldn't normally think of.
But there is more than just dialogue: there's action and some drama and situations, which are so surprising and sudden that you just don't see them coming until they hit you in the face.
This all is perfected with good direction and great musical choices.
And before I end this rant, I wanted to share my favourite moment with you: Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) gives Butch his family heirloom, left him by his father, who was, and died, in the same Vietcong prison camp Koons was.
Top notch film.