Gorgeous Love (Spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2003)

Quentin Tarantino's writing is what the movie's were made for. Living characters hiding in cliched but rich characters The criticism it received for it's emphasis on violence, and extrapolation of characters is most likely the same criticism Spielberg received when he took aliens and comic-book heroes like Indiana Jones, and revered them into movie theaters.

Quentin took the people that read the dime magazine romance novels, underground comics that treat love like a child's plaything, mobsters that are aware of their own violence, and placed them in the world as it can horribly turn out to be.
I'm a big romantic comedy fan, and could empathize with how many details are peppered onto Patricia Arquette's character as the woman of someone's dreams. She might not be perfect, but she reminds that the woman you fall in love with aren't perfect, and that's why you love them.

The first few scenes between the two of them evolve so naturally and at the same time with that dime-magazine exaggeration that it becomes compelling to love them and judge them. Especially when you can distance yourself from them, call them comic-geeks and white trash. Where the writing gets you is that you still love these two, because they're as afraid of waht they're into as any could ever be.
The violence is effective. Your heart is broken when you realize how much your heart could possibly bleed for years knowing that while your lady was dying for you in a hotel room, you were out buying burgers and talking about Elvis. And dying because she thought you to be the woman you always wanted to be for somebody but you know you're not. The love of a good woman, who ain't perfect but lives in a reality that makes you the strongest man alive is a truly romantic way to live forever. It's the biggest most deliciious slice of America's culture that anybody could want. It's America, living fast, making fresh new love in a phone booth in the desert, while the biggest truck in the world rolls past. 10/10