Pulp Fiction and religon
Throughout the movie Pulp Fiction runs many ties to the Bible. Jules recites and later analyzes a passage from the Bible and which portion each person would represent. There is a character, Lance, who shares a strong likeness with Jesus. Lance is Vincent's dealer that Vincent can get is euphoric feeling from, and later helps him to resurrect Mia Wallace. The stories themselves within the move also share similarities to those in the Bible . A strong theme throughout the instances with Jules and Vincent is the acknowledgement of God and his presence. In one of the most intense scenes in the movie, Jules and Vincent go to an apartment to retrieve a briefcase for Marcellus. What Jules and Vincent are picking up at the apartment is a briefcase for Marcellus. The camera never shows what is inside the briefcase, but is supposed to be the most beautiful thing everyone has seen. Any person who ends up looking at it's contents becomes momentarily entranced by what they s
Later we see that at the end of this scene, a person that was hiding in the bathroom comes out firing a "hand cannon" at Jules and Vincent. They look at the wall behind them and there are bullet-holes behind where they are standing. Vincent plays off the incident as though it weren't a big deal, but Jules sees it as divine intervention. It is possible that God spared these two due to the fact that they are saving and holding onto a person's soul, just reason for divine intervention. ee, it is Marcellus' soul. The briefcase must be unlocked with the code '666,' which is the number of the beast (devil). The briefcase emits a glow as a soul would if it were materialized. In the Bible, when the devil takes a soul, he takes it from the back of a person's head. When we first see Marcellus in the movie, all that is shown is the back of his head with a large Band-Aid on it. Shortly after Vincent is gunned down by Butch. At this point Jules has quit and is assumed to be alive and walking the e
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