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Appreciation of Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction was produced in 1994, directed by Quentin Tarantino. A subversive narrative structure and the undercurrent of black humor made it undoubtedly to be a fantastic movie.

My appreciation of Pulp Fiction will from 3 aspects, structure, character analysis and the strong sense of image.

?Structure

I have to say that Quentin Tarantino is really an amazing director. He used a novel “Circular Narrative” with several flashbacks instead of the usual performance routine, linear narration and common chronological structure of Hollywood action movies.

The entire film is consist of totally 5 parts,” Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s wife”,” the gold watch” and “the Bonnie Situation”, as well as the prologue and epilogue. It seems like that they are separate story inside, but all the scope is presenting the ring-type structure, and the first paragraph meeting the last as well.

In Pulp Fiction, it goes full circle that the stories were all used to imply the violence by the director. For example, the affair between Vincent and Mia has also existed in the plot of Gold Watch, but only as a dispensable accessory. Otherwise, the scene of pumpkin and honey bunny’s robbery is also cohering the beginnin g to the end. Furthermore, all parts of the movie are relatively independent.

In addition to the Circular N arrative structure, characters and dialogue, there’s another hidden figure (Bonnie), the content keywords, such as the Bible, gold watch and so on, to be the narrative clue, which is very suit for the habits of people nowadays searching the keywords online. For example, brought out the “foot massage”, you can instantly recall the two kille r’s great dialogue, sexy Mia and that poor guy who has been threw out the balcony.

?Character Analysis

Pulp Fiction a postmodern film, as well the different characters in it. A mafia godfather Marsellus who can manipulate the life and death of others, still can’t escape the fate of being raped in the grocery. A handsome gang bludger Vincent was shoot by his own gun within muddle. Jules recites a paragraph of Bible in every murder. A liberalistic couple robber, a superstitious boxer Butch and a sexy stupid woman Mia, the suspicion of the authority and belief permeates every minute of this film. That’s it! The unconventional postmodernism is true sense of madness andmetamorphosis. Let me raise several representative examples.

Vincent Vega, a mystifying killer, just like a perfect foil of those positive heroes. So when he went out of the washroom, he was shoot by his own submachine gun, with the black humor as always. No one would feel pity for his dead.

Jules, as a cruel killer, always quotes scripture of Bible before killing people. But at the end of the movie, it is obvious that Jules has understood that scripture’s hidden meaning, and finally changed a indifferent killer into a saviour-figure. We can discover the anger in his deeper heart.

It’s strange t hat I perfectly like the scope of these two men discussing the history of the hamburger’s name changing on their way to murder, extremely serious.

Marsellus, is the powerful gang leader. He can force everyone to listen to him, and what he like to say most is that “…Pride only hurts”. But wi th development of the plot, he is just a poor victim of a rape tragedy in a dirty basement of a grocery.

The boxer, acted by Bruce willis, a strong determined person. Stubborn, tough and tender inside, a very typical person who earns his living hardly. He is a person who is a little bit superstitious, because of his special belief of his gold watch made him to save Marsellus, who want to punish him a second before.

Strong Sense Of Image

Since the pulp fiction is no longer vulgar or violent, Uma Thurman (Mia) dancing on the stage has long been regarded as the most classical scene in 1990s.

The dusky background, bright stage, lively music and a fantastic wriggled dance constitute a kind of d ecadent sentiment. Uma – Thurman, with an ancient Egyptian style black straight hair, dark lipstick, dark nail polish, Agnes B shirts, with addition of her sexy and indifference temperament, without expectation, captured hearts of all the movie fans. A dance with the dance prince Travolta (Vincent) was whipping up an attractive visual feast storm in that era. The deep emotion of the heartstrings, has inadvertently touched all persons under in front of the screen.

This film which was produced in 1994, has no more fancy computer technology, everyone is just performing their real personality (just like John Travolta). It just a story that has never been told before and now showed by a special type of director, maybe full of the United States’ violence, drugs, psychological deformity, but not vulgar at all.