Pulp Fiction
Trying to deal with another cult movie? Why not.
Pulp Fiction was for Quentin Tarantino a huge breakthrough. After his first professional movie, The Reservoir Dogs, he was called an oblivion. Pulp Fiction was a second chapter of his career – and the most successful from many critics point of view. This movie was something new, fresh, unknown. Breaking many standards and stereotypes was not the only elements here. Tarantino gathered powerful pack of great actors so the acting side of this movie is marvelous. The big comeback of John Travolta became a fact, and Samuel L. Jackson got his ticket to real Hollywood career.
The movie is a story based on short novels (spiritually and constructionally) published in the 20s and 30s of the twenty century in United States. Those stories were just bad, and printed on very cheap paper. They were so bad that their name (Pulp Fiction) become a part of dictionary definition of something bad, cheap and mass manufactured. Pulp is a synonym of crap. Pulp Fiction is a movie that shows few pulp stories in an original way. Tarantino’s approach to old movies and stories is well known. He loves B-class movies and bad novels. Every one of his movies is a tribute to the old school of those pieces of art.
The story of Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is based on simple ideas but not so simple solutions. It is a crime story with gangsters, money, guns, a lot of bad man and beautiful women. But with this movie the definition of a gangster movie was rewritten. It is unclear who is bad and who is good here, and it isn’t even relevant. Ordinary people are not black and white, just like here.
The movie is brilliant, every scene perfect and the hand of Tarantino visible in every single moment. Pulp Fiction is all that postmodernistic movie can give.
Pulp Fiction, 1994. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken.
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