’Pulp Fiction’ is Quentin Tarantino’s second movie and it is even better than his first, ’Reservoir Dogs’. If you have seen that one you know it is quite an achievement. For me this is one of the best movies I have seen and together with ’Schindler’s List’, ’Fight Club’, and may be some others it is a modern classic already. I can watch it over and over again, discovering new things every time, never be bored for a second.
This is the most influential movie of the nineties and not without reason. The storytelling is simply brilliant and copied so much that the Tarantino-crime movie is almost a complete new genre. Three stories are told, definitely not chronologically.
The stories involve a robbery of a coffee shop by Pumpkin (the wonderful Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer), two hit-men Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) who work for Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) and a boxer Butch (Bruce Willis) who has to go down in the fifth round, a deal he made with Marsellus, but does not do that.
’Pulp Fiction’ is too hard to describe, mainly because you discover some new story elements every time you see it. The dialogue is great and funny and always on the right place, the violence is there but not as much as you would think. Another great thing is the briefcase we see in the movie. We never learn what is inside and the object alone creates its own philosophies. A brilliant movie with perfect performances, a true masterpiece.