Monday, February 12, 2007

Pulp Fiction


The film initiates with two small-time thieves, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant. The film then shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, who hit men for the well known and feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge.

The movie shows that tarantino is a genius. His idea of using narrative based action instead of things going in chronological order has since been copied by famous movies like Memento. But the biggest art of Tarantino is how he was able to let his character's evolve over the course of the film even though there were four different stories in the film, all connected to each other in different ways.

I think this quote best sums it up,
Back to the dialogue. It is the driving force of the film,

complementing the plot and allowing its characters to grow on us in

ways we never imagined they would. It's the way in which the dialogue

is deliberated that varies from most other examples of deliberation. ...

There are different levels of dialogue -- plot-driven, and realistic

-- but all dialogue is in service of its plot, just as all of what we

say to our friends or family has a deeper meaning and will no doubt

relate to the matter at hand. All dialogue relates to a larger scheme,

and so does the dialogue in "Pulp Fiction."


This is a link to the critical review:
http://us.imdb.com/Reviews/374/37494

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