True movie romance

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2012)

In True Romance, director Tony Scott and writer Quentin Tarantino take us on two lovers' journey through a world of crime and romance. The two lovers (Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette) meet in a movie theatre and Tarantino's love for films is present throughout the film. It's pretty safe to assume that Christian Slater embodies at least some part of Tarantino. He keeps his cool, always has a line on his lips and faces off against the criminals, doing everything to defend his girl.
True Romance does keep the promise given by it's title. It's a story about a couple wound up in a net of evil guys, backstabbing and a suitcase full of Cola, as the aspiring actor Elliot played by Bronson Pinchot calls it. The world of coke-snorting Hollywood guys and suave Italian mafiosi portrayed in True Romance, feels like a Tarantino world at every moment. In fact the whole film screams Tarantino. It's a romantic film in the sense that it romanticizes this world, and the idea that two lovers can get away from it if they stick together.
The dialogue is as always with Tarantino top-notch. The characters are somewhat cartoonish but in the most positive sense. A great cast rounds this experience up, and you just have to love this film as soon as you get to the performance of the pot-smoking slacker version of Brad Pitt.