Pulp Fiction: fuckastic film

Pulp Fiction is perhaps one of the clearest examples of fuckastic film. Iconoclast, revolutionary, poetic and intelligent, this is one of those rare moments in which the director makes cinema for moviegoers and for everyone who enjoys a good gangster story, or noir, mafia, and perverse one.

In the manner of Hitchcock, Tarantino inserts dialogues that have nothing to do with the plot. Unlike most scripts, the movie does not speak of itself, it is not explained, and rarely what is said relates to what is done.

The narrative is divided into three stories that connect each other, but the weave does not respect the limits of temporality, so the first one, called "Vincent Vega and Marcellus Wallace's wife" has a prologue that corresponds to the final part of the movie, called "The Bonnie situation".

The middle story "The Golden Watch" features points of intersection with the other two and shows the saga of boxer Butch who, even receiving good money from Marcellus to throw a fight, decides to betray the gangster and bet the money received on himself. The question now is to get away as fast as possible, along with his French girlfriend Fabienne to try to survive and spend the dangerously conquered fortune.

In the episodes that opens and closes the movie, there are the adventures and misadventures of Vince and Jules, Marcellus' hit-men who discuss different subjects like a foot massage, hamburgers, filthy animals, divine intervention, while fulfilling their "missions." In one case, when they are to retrieve Marcellus's (with its mysterious content) famous briefcase held by a bunch of students, they discuss extensively the Amsterdam drug laws and the name of the Quarter Pounder sandwich in Paris, until Jules remembers what they were doing:─ Let's get in character! ─ and invade.

Tarantino, who also stars in the last episode, is able to get unforgettable performances from Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman. A masterpiece of humor, terror, adventure, and action. All together.

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