Assignment 5-5 Film Review on IMDb

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2011)

My opening statement defining the movie's theme in a central insight is as follows. "Five complete strangers that do not know each other team up for the perfect crime, they do not know each other's names but they got each other's numbers pegged." My film choice shows a theme of mistrust and deception. The main actors and their character names are as follows; Harvey Keitel as Larry Dimmick, a.k.a. Mr. White, Quentin Tarantino as Mr. Brown, Tim Roth as Freddy Newandyke, a.k.a. Mr. Orange, Eddie Bunker as Mr. Blue, Michael Madsen as Vic Vega, a.k.a. Mr. Blonde, Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot, Chris Penn as Nice Guy Eddie Cabot, and Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink. The two main scenes that can give example of mistrust and deception are as follows.
The first scene is the beginning scene were they are all sitting around having breakfast, the general conversation displays mistrust and deception as they interact with each other over and after breakfast telling stories and analyzing another movie they all have seen. The second scene is where Mr. White played by Harvey Keitel defends Mr. Orange played by Tim Roth; that he is not an undercover cop, against Nice Guy Eddie's and Joe's accusations that he is. Again throughout the entire breakfast setting in the introduction before the beginning credits roll displays the perfect example of dialogue displaying the theme's mistrust and deception. The angles also help when the story is unfolding different camera angles are used to show multiple scenes at once showing how things went and how the mistrust and deception muddies it up.
The lighting and color also contribute a little you will have to view the movie for yourself to gain the display. The music that the movie is set to also helps display the mistrust and deception and set the mood to the theme as well. I liked how the non-linear use of the storyline in displayed, for me it makes the movies interesting. The violence is not too much for me as well. And the racist remarks just helps add depth to the character's showing the time era and up bringing that they had as children. The best scene if I have not mentioned it for an example of violence in the movie is the scene were Mr. Blonde played by Michael Madsen torture's the uniform cop for his mere amusement.
Another movie that can be used as an example of all these things is Pulp Fiction. There are many scenes that best show the dialogue in the movie for me I like the scene were they are given names and some are OK with their names and others are not, e.g. Mr. Pink is all upset about having that name and wants to trade, one person will trade but the old man that put the crew together will not let them and then there is a whole discussion about why they cannot trade and why they have to keep the names they were given. Another good scene for dialogue is when you find out that one of them is an undercover cop place in the crew to bust them, it is the scene where he is meeting with his superior and giving him the low down on everyone and their names and providing as much background information on them as he can.
Additionally, another good scene for dialogue is the scene were one of them finds out that he is and undercover cop and another sticks up for him, as they debate back and forth about him being a cop and him not being a cop, which in reality he is an undercover cop and man is that guy mad he stuck up for a cop. All and all this was a great movie and I am glad it was on the movie list. The motif's by most of the characters in the movie also greatly helps display the movies theme of mistrust and deception among the movies characters. Another good example of mistrust and deception is when the movie gives background on Tim Roth's character Mr. Orange on how he is an undercover cop. Another motif that moves the movies forward is accidents; which is a trademark style of the writer/director Quentin Tarantino. I believe that Quentin Tarantino made certain scenes overly racist, vulgar, and/or violent to purposely get a reaction from individuals in the audience.
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