Pulp Fiction


Pulp fiction is a story set in Los Angles and opens with two small time robbers sticking up a diner and sees “honey bunny” turn from sweet and simple girl into a violent and loud robber in a matter of seconds when she yells” Any of you fucking pricks move, and I’ll execute every last mother fucking one of you!” the next scene involves two hit men retrieving a brief case from a gang and the reading of a line of the bible to them then killing them. The next story is of a war hero hiding a watch up his arse for 7 years then giving it to his son. His son then becomes a boxer and gets paid by a mafia boss to lose a fight. One of the hit men (called Vince) is asked to take the Boss’s wife out to keep her entertained while he’s away. While taking her out she takes some oh his heroine thinking it’s cocaine and proceeds to over dose and starts to have a fit until Vince administers a shot of adrenaline to her heart they then swear never to talk about it. It then skips back to just after the two hit men when they have a near death experience and Jules decides to leaves the business and become a wander or as Vince outs it, a “bum”. The boxer decides not to do as he’s told and go down and end up killing the other boxer then running town and only by a chance encounter does he survive

In my opinion the best part of the film is the dialogue and the way all the characters lives blend together in a apparently unrelated way. The way the story plunges you so mercilessly into the characters life and only explains certain things through other characters stories. One of my favourite bits of the film is when butch is looking for a weapon to go and attack people holding Marsellus Wallace. The way he ranges from a relatively reasonable weapon such as a hammer all the way up to a unreasonable weapon like the samurai sword. It’s a incredibly funny part of the film to see the look in his eye when he spots it.

The way the film both ends and begins with the same scene also helps to demonstrate the way the film flows incredibly well. And how with out certain meaningless elements for one story are extremely important for other parts of the film.

Alex Tomkins.