Well, what can I say? Tarantino is a madman inspired! This one really grows on you. I remember the first time I watched it, I was forever on the edge of my seat trying to guess the next twist. And every time since, the sassy talk never fails to get me. The movie is centered around 4 strange scenes, which themseleves are not juxtaposed in sequence. The camera work is a riot, screenplay insane but brilliant and Tarantino seems to cock a snook at every tenet that is supposed to make a movie a hit.(Warning, spoilers ahead)
Vincent Vega (Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Jackson) are a couple of gun toting, philosophical hitmen who talk about the idiosyncrasies of European living and the sensuousness of a ’’foot massage’’ before ’’popping a cap up a guy’s ass’’, so to say. Marsellus Wallace (Rhames) is their gangsta boss and when he is away, Vincent is supposed to take care of his wife Mia (Thurman). What follows is shockingly hilarious. On an aside, Butch Coolidge (Willis) is a boxer who has reneged on a deal with Wallace and boy, has he had to pay for it!
In short, it’s a movie that will stay on your minds (and maybe even hit you) long after you’ve watched it. Though the plot is extremely tight-knit, for me it was the screenplay which was the killer. It has more quotable quotes than any other movie I can think of. Eg-samples -
MIA: Don’t you hate that?
VINCENT: What?
MIA: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be
comfortable?
VINCENT: I don’t know.
MIA: That’s when you know you found somebody special. When you can just shut the f up for a minute, and comfortably share silence.
Jackson for me was the actor of the movie. He is terrific as the bible spewing toughie. One of his quotes - ’’If you find my answers frightening, Vincent, you should cease askin’ scary questions.’’
Travolta and Thurman too put in great, underplayed performances. In all - a movie to be watched over and over and over again...