Pulp Fiction Review

TARANTINO, Quentin. Pulp fiction. (1994). United States: Miramax Films, 153min.

I have chosen for my review one of the cinema classics par excellence, Pulp Fiction, directed by the famous American director, producer, screenwriter and actor Quentin Tarantino.

The film tells three different stories, which are closely related. The first is about two professional killers, Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), who work for Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). There is another story related to Vincent Vega and Wallace’s wife, Mia (Uma Thurman). Vincent has the duty to protect her, and there is an evident sexual attraction between them, but he can't betray his boss. They have an interesting date, with a dance included. But the date goes wrong because Mia almost dies of drug overdose. On the other hand, a boxer called Butch Coolidge (interpreted by Bruce Willis), makes a deal with Wallace in which he must lose a fight, but instead of this he kills his opponent after having bet for himself, and decide to escape with the money and his girlfriend Fabianne.

But she warns him that she has forgotten his most appreciated object (a watch which left his father after dying) in the apartment, so Butch decide to come back there and recover it. When he arrives at the apartment, realizes that someone is in the bathroom, which is no more and no less than Vincent Vega. Vincent dies shot by Butch for leaving his gun in the kitchen. When Butch is driving on the way home, he passes by Wallace, who sees him, so he knocks down him. In my opinion, this is the most epic scene.

Wallace's Wife and Vincent Vega dancing

The film has a special order, because it doesn’t correspond with the real chronology.  There are a lot of aspects which I would like to highlight, for example the large number of swearwords present during all the film. Only the work ‘fuck’ and his variants, made a total of 265 times. And what about all the curiosities of the film? like the appearance of Tarantino himself, who loves to act in his own films.

In my view, one of the most strong points in Pulp Fiction is the presence of frontline actors, whose performance is flawless in every scene. Another strong point of Pulp Fiction is the script that is brilliant, because it shows the essence of the plot. Definitively, Pulp Fiction has become one of my favourite films.