Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction, one of the most highly acclaimed films of 1995, was without a doubt a shocking and controversial movie. Drugs, sex, and violence filled our eyes and ears. Director Quentin Tarantino brought into the mainstream a genre that had never had such mass appeal, and he did it very successfully. After viewing Pulp Fiction, the issues of violence and punishment arise, and we have to question what role they play in the film. "The Body of the Condemned," by Michael Foucault, has some extremely graphic stories in it. The one that stands out most clearly is the scene of the spectacle of eighteenth century punishment. In writing about how Damiens “The Regicide” was brutally tortured, "The flesh will be torn from his breast, arms, thighs, and calves with red-hot pincers, his right hand, holding the knife with which he committed the said parricide, burnt with sulfur( Foucault)." Relating this example to Pulp Fiction, we see there is a definite connection. Violence and punishment can be traced to Quentin Tarantino's earlier films, most noticeably True Romance and Reservoir Dogs. A brutal torture scene, sort of like the Damiens “The Regicide” of the 90's, took place in Reservoir Dogs. A gangster cut the ea
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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