A cinematic Masterpiece Commerating on its Tenth Anniversary

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2004)

Contains Spoilers
The Tenth Anniversary of a cinematic Classic!!!
Released in 1994 with its witty,stylish and romantic to its dark heart,PULP FICTION is a compulsively funny and strangely dreamy look at the criminals,hangers-on,and low life scum who populate a glamorously sleazy Los Angeles of the mind. The movie's opening scene is in a diner,where none-too bright criminal lovebirds Honey Bunny(Amanda Plummer)and Pumpkin(Tim Roth)discuss their future. They're tired of holding up liquor stores and 7/11's:too many shopkeepers with too many guns They decide to switch to diners,in broad daylight,which are full of people with wallets and purses. The pre-credits sequence ends as Honey Bunny leaps up,gun in hand,and shouts that it's a stick-up. The next sequence begins in a car,as hit men Jules(Samuel Jackson)and Vincent Vega(John Travolta),who's just returned from an extended stay in Europe,talks about everything under the sun-at least,and everything that interests them,from what a Quarter Pounder is called in France to TV Pilots. They're on their way to pay a visit to three clean-cut,middle class youths who've make the mistake of double crossing their boss,Marsellus. Jules is especially interested in the fact that Vincent has been assigned to escort Marsellus' wife Mia while the big man is out of town;there are pitfalls inherent in spending time with the boss's wife. Their visit with the college boys takes a nasty turn for the worst after they briefcase-which emits a strange,radiant light-that Marsellus has sent them to retrieve. This is where Jackson quotes a part from the Bible(and it is one of the best performances throughout the film)before the entourage of taking out the youths.
We see next Vincent on his way to keep his date with Mia(Uma Thurman). He stops off to visit his dealer,Lance(Eric Stoltz),buys some heroin,and shoots up before arriving at Marsellus' home. Vincent and Mia have dinner at Jackrabbit Slim's,a 1950s theme restaurant,then Vincent takes her home. While he is in the bathroom,she discovers the heroin in his pocket,mistakes it for cocaine and snorts some. When he comes out,she's comatose:in a panic,he takes her to Lance's where they administer a shot of adrenaline to the heart. She recovers,and the evening ends with Mia and Vincent promising that the events will be their secret. In the next sequence,we meet Butch(Bruce Willis),a washed up boxer who is being paid for by Marsellus(Ving Rhames) to takes a dive in a upcoming fight,but Butch has other plans--who then flees with his girlfriend Fabianne(Maria de Medeirous) and get out of the country. The next morning he learns that Fabianne has forgotten the watch he inherited from his father who fought in the war(Christopher Walken),and goes back to the apartment to retrieve it,but instead finds the watch,and then driving back to his girlfriend,Butch runs down Marsellus,who tries to kill him,and from there Marsellus chases Butch into a pawnshop when turns out to be sadistic hillbilly sex murderers which Butch escapes while they're assaulting Marsellus,but his sense of honor makes him goes back and kills the sadistic suckers in a bloody outburst of gore,and from there Marsellus forgives him but tells Butch to leave town and he and his girlfriend ride off into the sunset.
The final sequence returns to Jules and Vincent's dilemma where they killed off the young victims,but a fourth one lives. In the car Jules claims that they were saved by a miracle,but while they're driving and talking,Vincent accidentally shoots the passenger,and they find somewhere to hide out while they clean up there gore-splattered car full of bone fragments. They descend on Jimmy(Quentin Tarantino),a close friend of Jules,but they have to be out before Jimmy's wife returns. However,Marsellus sends The Wolf(Harvey Keitel)to get them out of their situation and from after their taxing morning,Jules and Vincent decide to have breakfast in the same diner that Honey Bunny and Pumpkin and about to rob. As customers hit the floor,Jules remains calm while Vincent is in the diner's restroom. He refuses to give up the briefcase,overpowers Pumpkin,talks Honey Bunny out of opening fire,and eventually defuses the whole situation. At the end,Vincent and Jules leave the diner,still talking about Jules' plans to devote himself over to God.
On the commemoration of its tenth anniversary,PULP FICTION is a witty,violent and unexpectedly redemptive tour de force,in which he juggles three overlapping stories of love,betrayal,and murder as business-as-usual. The movie skims along on a sea of lurid clichés,but are as twisted,transfigured,and given astonishingly fresh-life to its cast of characters as the day this film was released. PULP FICTION also pays homage to its B-movie past while existing comfortably it is own perfectly realized world. It also pays great homage to the action-packed blaxploitation films of its era and the crime-noirs thrillers of the 1970's which set the tone for the other Quentin Tarantino films like RESERVOIR DOGS(1992),JACKIE BROWN(1997),and most recently the KILL BILL(2003,2004) trilogies. Oscar-Winner for Best Original Screenplay(Quentin Tarantino),and Oscar nominations for Best Picture,Best Director,and so forth,PULP FICTION is a cinematic masterpiece of film especially with all the violent action-and there's plenty with some of its explicit graphic in detail is very paramount indeed. Check the extended DVD version as well. Congradulations,Quentin Tarantino on your 10th Anniversary of this landmark classic.