The Tarantino Revolution

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2006)

Three stories into one. This is "Pulp Fiction", one of the most incredible movies I've ever seen.
Just after seeing the first story, which stars John Travolta and Uma Thurman, I was satisfied with the movie. The second (and the best) story, with Bruce Willis, made me understand that the movie deserved a 5/5. Add another story, with Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, and you know that "Pulp Fiction" is simply perfect and a revolution into the film industry.
What impressed me the most is the structure of the movie. Even before the opening credits appear, you assist to a conversation between a young man and his girlfriend who decide to rob the restaurant in which they eat, because it would be an easy job. They both shout "Hands up!", just when director Quentin Tarantino cuts the scene starts the credits and then shifts elsewhere. Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson) are about to meet their boss Marcellus (Ving Rhames), but they meet other guys and the scene (that I baptized scene A) ends tragically, but not for everybody.
The first story begins. Vincent and Mia(Thurman), Marcellus' wife meet each other for a drug trade. They go to a 50's drive-in and they participate into a dance competition, which they win. It shouldn't be surprising, when the dance man is John Travolta. It's clearly visible that he hasn't buried the Grease and Saturday Night Fever days. But the story ends less happily as Mia overdoses herself and Vincent brings her to the dealer who sold him the drug. In order to re-animate Mia, Vincent has to perform into the most shocking scene I've ever seen.
Cut to the second story. Young Butch is given his deceased father's gold watch by Capt. Koons(Christopher Walken). Actual Butch(Willis), a boxer, wakes up from this dream and goes to the ring. We never see a single scene from the combat, but the radio announcer tells that Butch fought his adversary so hard that he killed him. Unaware that he actually killed his opponent, Butch flees to the motel where his wife Fabienne waits for him. Fabienne forgot Butch's watch and the boxer goes back to his home to get it. But he discovers a gun on his oven and at the same moment, Vincent goes out from the bathroom. Instinctly, Butch takes the gun and shoots Vincent to death. Butch flees in his car and Marsellus appears in front of him. Butch runs over Marsellus, but the boss wants Butch's head and he pursuits him to an electronic store. Both men are taken hostages by the salesman and the sexual-obsessed policeman on the scene. They're able to free themselves. Butch kills the salesman with a Japanese sabre, while Marcellus shoots the policeman into the genitals.
My God, this is something entirely new for the violence genre! This is some kind of depiction and exaggeration of today's everyday violence and it's absolutely awesome. The aggressiveness and the violent instinct, as well as the sexual needs make the characters intriguing and fascinating, if not frightening. In their minds, violence is neither funny, nor dramatic. Violence has just lost its signification and it becomes the only employable language into their world. This world has lost of its logic and moral working, turning itself into a savage jungle filled of barbaric people.
The third story begins with the scene A and its followings. Vincent and Jules bring a friend into their car. During the ride, Vincent inadvertently shoots him and the vehicle is filled of blood and a corpse lays on the back seat. Vincent and Jules visit a friend, Jimmy(Tarantino), and try to find a solution. Soon, Winston Wolf(Harvey Keitel) arrives and tells them what to do. The following scenes are filled with drama, as well as extreme-black humor. Vincent and Jules decide to take breakfast in a restaurant, but the place they chose is about to be taken over by robbers. So, the first scene of all superimposes itself. What follows is images of drama, as well as this ultra-violence and that taste for anarchy and robbery.
"Pulp Fiction" is simply a classic. Its revolutionary structure and stories make it twisting and intriguing and the characters that we see here are only superficial, especially the main ones. Jules takes violence as a simple aspect of life and his religious chats are somehow special. Butch is a soul-tortured boxer who acts like violence was as normal as breathing. The drug use and the sexual situations into the movie may be controversial, but they're just other elements from a mad world, in which violence, absurdity and foolishness are the order of the day.