Pulp Fiction

🔥 4th Watch | Top 100 | Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction is Quentin Tarantino in his rawest form and seeing it in the cinema was utter perfection. Pulp Fiction shouldn't work. Even Memento, a film notorious through its nonlinear storytelling, has a pretty rigid and systematic narrative structure. Pulp Fiction's screenplay, on the other hand, is all over the place. Pulp Fiction plays more as an anthology than a one singular story. Characters are introduced and killed seemingly at random. Tiny details (like foot massages and awkward silences) are usually given precedent over the big picture. However, the masterful manipulation of the screenplay makes the film's message about redemption coherent. No matter how paradoxical it seems, it all works flawlessly. In Pulp Fiction, everything harmonizes together blissfully. The witty dialogue, the gritty visuals, the eclectic soundtrack, the iconic performances. The unparalleled direction glues everything together, and the result feels genuine. Pulp Fiction, along with all of Tarantino's filmography, is an homage to what he grew up in. There's a reason why so many of his movies incorporate details from the films he loved growing up. This is what differentiates from Quentin Tarantino from everyone else who attempts to replicate the "Tarantino Effect." Tarantino is truly genuine. Everyone else is merely trying to ride Tarantino's wave. It's why Pulp Fiction—and Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, plus many more—are masterpieces while Tarantino-inspired student films feel phony and pretentious. ⬅️ Previous Review: Trap