Quentin Tarantino creates a masterpiece.

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 1998)

Pulp Fiction. The opening of this film consists of a literary definition of the title. This alone should tell you what you are about to see cannot be compared to anything real. But have you listened to the news or read the papers lately. There's stuff going on the world that makes Pulp Fiction look like a day care center complete with cute bunnies. Tarantino specializes in introducing us to characters, allowing us to get use to them, and he even getting us to like them. Then all of a sudden he introduces an element that is so bizarre we barely have time to process it. He doesn't give us time for it to sink in, but we still have to deal with this new direction while more stuff keeps happening. The language, drug use, and violence are all incidental. They are not "Glorified" by this movie. If you make a movie about modern day gangsters in L.A. or any city, drugs and violence go hand in hand with it for it to be realistic in that respect. I get the feeling Tarantino wants us to believe in the characters, dialogue, and overall initial premise. Then he throws a monkey wrench into the works. How we react tells us a lot about ourselves. This is not my favorite movie ever, but it's definitely in my top 10. I love the fact that there are as many people who love this movie as those who hate it. That alone is a difficult achievement.