Unique Crime - Thriller of 1994: Pulp Fiction
Movie: Pulp Fiction
Genre: Crime Thriller
Year: 1994
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson
Snapshot of Story:
The movie is another prime work by director Quentin Tarantino who makes no pretense to how far humans can go in terms of violence, self-righteousness, greed and self-regard. The movie portrays two criminals in their working lives with large doses of humour, violence and uncircumstantial events.
Moments in the Story:
The two main characters are played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson and both give superb performances in their roles as totally heartless and often comical criminals.
Tarantino’s stylish way of directing somehow makes these two characters likeable and applies wonderful use of dialogue that brings the characters alive. In one scene they randomly talk about hamburgers and how each country has a definition of their own for the McDonalds Big Mac. In a split moment they accidently shoot the passenger and of course their immediate reaction was the mess they made but not the fact that they had blown someone’s head off.
In other parts of the movie, John Travolta who plays Vincent Vega has to look after his boss’s wife and come to a restaurant where he feels uncomfortable in the situation. Despite the ruthless nature of his job, we see a tender side of him that is in stark contrast to his daily working life.
The movie weaves it’s way between different events and scenes with different characters and all of it is very entertaining with much emphasis on shock and violence.
Final Thoughts:
In Tarantino’s world, we see the dark side of the human personality, the area that we all feel uncomfortable to cross but he brings this about with clever manipulation of dialogues and uncircumstantial events which makes the movie very entertaining to watch.
Rating:
8.5/10
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