A very interesting movie

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2015)

Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hit men with a penchant for philosophical discussions and their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames); his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman); struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis); master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) and a nervous pair of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. This movie is a series of less-and-more related but separated short stories of crime and comedy that each result into an unexpected ending including unexpected deaths, sudden twists, black comedy events and horrific conclusions of crime and its following consequences. The theme of Pulp Fiction is power when Marsellus is the sort of character who looms over the entire film while being invisible most of the film. The theme of power is very prevalent during Jules Winnfield's scene at the apartment and with one of the most controversial aspect of the film, which is the literal use of the N-word. When you watch the movie, you can tell that Marsellus has some severe power over all the actors in one way or another. Since I don't have a massive list of movies I watched, I can't really make a reference to another film due to the fact that of the films I watched, none of them match what pulp fiction has for its theme. The film uses the motif of the control Marsellus has over the characters, by using shadows to stay hidden and the fact that he is merciless, like when Vincent hears that Marsellus threw someone out the window for giving his wife a foot massage. When Marsellus is on the screen you can clearly see that the other characters are scared of him. The lighting of the film is very appropriate and it looks like there is a bunch of natural light when the scenes are near windows or outside and the use of the lights from the bulbs in the indoor scenes, where the light comes from those bulbs and not from an external source of light (studio lights to make the scene brighter). Fear and power are some of the easiest ways to gain respect from people, but it can lead to having some of your people to oppose you.