Review of Pulp Fiction (1994) by Dan L — 05 Jul 2018

Wow, this was an unexpected joyride. At first, I was like 'Wow, this movie is an unrelenting mix of swear words, white racist people who won't stop saying the n-word, a talented cast and blood and gore.' But as the movie went on and I became more and more engaged with the story, I was like 'Wow, this movie is actually pretty darn great.'.

Yeah, Quentin Tarantino made a really really good movie. No wonder Pulp Fiction has the reputation it has these days. The story has so many twists and turns that I didn't expect, so many interactions between so many egos that makes a whopping two-and-a-half hour movie worth the watch. I didn't even know time was going on. The dialogue, wow, the dialogue is basically what makes this movie so good. It's so over-the-top and yet, so believable. The various conflicts between characters, the relationships between characters, they're all so interesting that you can't help but feel joy from how our characters act and interact.

The characters in this movie are all messed up. They're either amoral, trigger-happy, or foolish. It's a movie about broken people, who accidentally or deliberately break some more people, and eventually one of them, Jules(played by the ever-so-talented Samuel L. Jackson) tries to fix himself. Oh god, I can talk forever about lines that cracked me up, they were so hilarious and so serious at the same time. I'll tell you this, though, Uma Thurman's Mia Wallace ended all of them with her presence. With the comparatively little screen time that she got, Uma ended all of them and all of us. She deserved better, both onscreen and off the screen(I'm talking to you, Tarantino, you asshole).

Oh, and Samuel's final scenes gave me actual chills. What can't he do at this point? He's such a great actor.