Pulp Victory

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2011)

The first time I saw Pulp Fiction I thought how could anyone direct such a CRAP! Seriously!!! What would you tell about a movie which has only dialogues and some speck of action!The movie started with Tim Roth and his Girlfriend Amanda Plummer talking in a coffee shop.This went on for the first ten minutes!!Okay fine...maybe it might get better?Then out of no where both of them pull out their guns and hold the coffee shop for ransom!Strange but unpredictable...oh !!!There could be some action now!!After the credits are done, a completely different scene with John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson starts,in a conversation again !!God!! Save the talk!!!!! some action please now at least!!This was just the kind of mind I had for the first twenty minutes itself.Imagine what a frame of mind i would have been,for the rest of the movie!!After the movie was over, with a sadistic frame of mind I wanted to enjoy the pleasure of how the critics would have beaten up this movie to the core(thats what I thought..but)....... in IMDb.But the minute I opened pulp fiction webpage,I was flabbergasted!!What the hell!!Are people so bland in their taste?A rating of 9/10 was given even more than DARK KNIGHT(my fave movie then).As a movie freak I was so inquisitive, that I saw the movie again the next day.
The critics had asked the audience to only to listen to the dialogues.Fine lets listen to what the dialogues have got!!Back to the coffee shop scene again!Tim roth and Amanda plummer start discussing the idea of robbing banks.Then they try to reason out why to rob just banks:Why not some other place where their is cash and no problem of security like the coffee shop they were sitting in!Then Amanda says to do it now!Then they pull out there guns and hold the shop for ransom!!... The conversation WAS pretty much logical and refreshingly different!!The conversation between John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson was actually good and definitely funny in a strange way especially about the "foot massage"!!The way Jackson then kills his enemy after his beautiful monologue-EZEIKEL 25:17 was exactly like watching Rajnikanth's punch dialogues!!As the movie went on my perspective about it changed! A cactus to a beautiful sunflower !Metaphors do come handy at times!!After watching this movie my taste,my ideas,my interests for watching movies completely changed!!!This movie actually taught me a lesson as to how to approach a movie-to never to always look at the style or pace in the screenplay,but to look at something beyond these petty things,something I thought had no value-DIALOGUES ..This movie was known to be a genre bending movie of all times!YES ,IT SURELY IS!I would also accept the fact that,this is the first black comedy I have watched.The first movie I had seen, where the violence is seen from a different aspect.You will never find the violence morose, unbearable or sadistic to watch as in the director's previous movie Reservoir Dogs ,but you might find it surprisingly entertaining.
This non linear crime drama directed by Quentin Tarantiono(enemy then, guru now),has bagged names like postmodern film and neo noir film as its narrative structure is completely opposite to a normal straight forward narration and the characters are anti heroic characters in the film.If you are looking at the plot of the movie-There is no definite plot.That is why it has been haled as a masterpiece which defines nothing at all.The story as such is 4 intertwined tales of violence and redemption of 2 hit-man(Travolta,Jackson), a boxer(Bruce Willis) and a gangster's wife(Uma Thurman).This movie surprisingly won the Oscar only for screenplay(Tarantino and Roger Avary)!!
What annoyed me was the fact that Jackson As the Hit-man named "jules" did not win for his superlative performance.He deserved it more for his EZEIKEL 25:17 dialogue's explanation at the end in his redemptive mood.....All the other actors like John Travolta,Uma Thurman,Ving Rhames and Bruce willis have done a commendable job.The highlight of this movie is the non linear narration of the story and Tarantino's usual style-unpredictability!Another aspect about this movie is the pleasant and eclectic background music fusing the violence to the entertaining mood of the film.
I would like to conclude by saying that please don't assess a movie like I did without really understanding it-Its sheer cockiness.I would highly recommend this movie for lovers of black comedies and the rest the world because it does not make you think,but will keep you glued to this movie AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW THE DIALOGUES.
Lastly please don't expect to learn everything about this movie as such from this review as I will only tell you what I felt.I only will give you the wood and would ask you to enjoy the pleasure of rubbing the wood hard and lighting fire yourself,by watching the movie yourself.!! This movie is a sure PULP VICTORY!!!!