Tarantino's Best.

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 1999)

To lend myself to the cliche, Tarantino has revolutionized cinema. Some praise him, some berate him, some despise him, and quite a few lose sight of what he has brought into the mainstream. In this, his best work to date, Tarantino succeeds in telling one of the most realistic tales ever to find its way into theaters. It is this realism that makes Tarantino so impressive a director. While epics like Braveheart and Titanic concern themselves with the most noble points of human existence and morbid thrillers such as Se7en focus on the lowest depths of depravity, Pulp Fiction instead stays firmly in the middle ground of daily experience. The film has been criticized as glorifying violence and drug use. Instead I feel this movie simply portrays such facets of society, and portrays them very similarly to the "real world." Pulp Fiction, along with Tarantino's other films, is so captivating because the characters are so very human, more than a collection of catch phrases and a cool exterior. Tarantino offsets this stark realism with offset chronology, drawing the audience in even further by making them fit the pieces of the plot together in their minds. Granted, Tarantino was not the first to use the directorial techniques that make Pulp Fiction a fantastic story. He did not use them first, but he has used them best. He is so good at what he does that Pulp Fiction is a great movie despite his own acting. That alone is worthy of an Oscar.