Pulp Fiction Film Review
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is one of the most daring, puzzling, and ultimately exciting pieces of cinema to hit the screen in years. As wholly original as it is a copy of hundreds of films before it about tales of hitmen and criminals, it dares you to step out of the dull and enter a colorful, exhilarating world that could only be Los Angeles. The intensity level of the movie is off the scale. People are laughing like crazy in the theater to the intelligent dialog and other scenes that have the audience gasping for air in shock over what just happened. Although one might say that Pulp Fiction is overly violent and disturbing, it is in fact, one of the greatest movies due to Quentin Tarantino's incredible screenplay, the intensity of the actors, and music to set the mood. Pulp Fiction is rebellious in the way that it manipulates all usual plots structures by twisting time to satisfy its own system. The film tells a series of interlocking stories involving two hitmen, a boxer and his French girlfriend, a crime boss and his mischievous wife, a small time drug dealer, two lovebird robbers, two hillbilly rapists, and a leather freak. However, all these stories revolve around three main plots;
Although the acting in Pulp Fiction is memorable, the music impacted the movie a great deal. The collection of songs and instruments are so perfectly suited to the scenes, style and mood of the film as to almost become part of the seduction. A particular stand out is when Vincent arrives to pick up Mia for their night out. The music is so clam and puts the audience right in to the mood of the film that you cannot help but feel the intensity and passion that the characters are feeling. Tarantino has chosen just the right songs for this and makes a great film even better. Although Pulp Fiction may not of won any Academy awards for its excellence, one cannot help but remember the incredible narration and be in awe by how it is presented in a way like no other before it. The screen writes are original, the ensembles of actors for each role, from Samuel L. Jackson to Umma Thurman, is outstanding and the music that presents the feeling to the audience is compelling. There is no question about how this film keeps you on your toes, thinking about what is going to happen next. The transition from scene to scene is presented in a way that you could not fall asleep in this movie even if you tried. However, if one is sensitive about violence, which is portrayed very graphically in this fi
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