Originally Posted by Equilibrium
I concur.
This is a very controversial movie. I personally love it and think it's one of the greatest movies in the last decade so I just wanted to fill you in about some things so you might be able to appreciate it more.
No matter how you feel about Pulp-Fiction as a movie, you can't debate that it's just another movie. The way Pulp-fiction was written is much different than practically every-movie, save some unpopular ones he copied the idea from.
Now, A lot of people didn't understand of didn't get why the movie's chronology was rearranged and overlapped. Tarantino did this because if he wrote it chronologically, you wouldn't understand the point of the movie. It opens with the most important scene and ends with most impotant scene to the plot of the movie. The first scene set the plot for the movie and the last one summed up the movie's point (brilliantly, I might add). In every story, someone dies and someone gets saved. I'm not gonna write who from every story because it's irrelevant but what's great about that fact, written into the script is that in the last story, Samuel L. Jackson gets saved but not in the same way the rest of them were. Jules was saved spiritually. His soul was saved. That was one of the points of the movie and how people are tempted by evil which is what's in the case, that or Marsellus Wallace's soul (which is supposed to represent evil anyway).
Also, besides the different structure of the story, the way the script carries the plot is also uniquely different from most movies. The movie moves the plot mostly through its diologue. And it's diologue was cleverly written so for once in a movie, we find ourselves actually entertained just by what the character's are saying. It's a breath-of-fresh-air from most movies where the diologue is emphasized in many parts for carrying the plot and is pretty clean-cut. The Diologue in most movies is written for a purpose in the plot where Pulp-Fiction's diologue is written mostly for entertainment (but is still used for character development ofcourse just like in normal movies) and is written at a pace like regular people are talking unlike slower-than-reality movies.
As for the low-lives in the movie. The character's are low-lifes for mainly three reasons. The first is because it fits the plot, the second because its supposed to comment on the pop-culture of the United States (A commentary) and also just to stick it to the rest of writers in hollywood that he can make a movie with such low-life character's and make it a hit because of the amount of entertainment they deliver, regardless of who they are. And also to an extant, to show that no matter what field oa peson works in, they're pretty much still people which helps the strenth of the moral of the story (the plot) itself.
I think it's great. When I first saw it, I couldn't take the large amount of violence seriously because of the diologue and of how much violence there was. They really weren't painted to be such bad-guys. It was a sort-of criticism of Hollywood movies. I loved Pulp-Fiction a lot. But don't get me wrong. I HATED KILLBILL. I also didn't like Troy that much, Independence Day, and T3, That's all I can name, right now. My thoughts.