Review of Pulp Fiction

     Full of blood, guts, shootouts, gimp men, drugs, and plenty of cussing, Pulp Fiction has all the ingredients of a Tarantino film. Pulp Fiction is filmed in in such a nonlinear way that you see it a dozen times and still not remember what comes next. It doubles back on itself, telling several interlocking stories about characters who inhabit a world of crime, intrigue, triple-crosses and loud desperation. The title fits the movie perfectly, like in the old pulp mags named "Thrilling Wonder Stories" and "Offical Dectective". The movie creates a world where there are no normal people and no ordinaries days -- where breathless prose clatters down fire escapes and leaps into a dumpster of doom.
                    

Tarantino takes us on a ride, weaving in and out and going back and forth through the plot. Slowly, he unravels the stories, giving us a backstory or explanation to each scene. What I love most about this movie, is how Tarantino sets up a great scene, then gives a flashback or flash forward in time that makes the previous scene even better. The main stories and characters that Tarantino follows are: the two hitmen, Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta). Jules is one  cold blooded mother f*cker who quotes the Bible, Ezekiel 23:17 right before he puts a cap in your ass, and Vincent, who can't quite handle the assignments that are givin to him. Not only does he kill people inadvertently ("The car hit a bump!") but he doesn't really know how to clean up his messes either. This does not take away from the fact that he is one ruthless character.                                                                             
Some others are, Butch Collidge, a boxer who had just killed the prized boxer of the infamous mob boss, Marsellus Wallace. Butch is now on the run for his life from Wallace, but fate would bring them together in a way that I do not think either of them enjoyed
                                       
This is such a great film, and it is truly a masterpiece to watch unfold. If this does not represent Tarantino's true skill as a director, than I do not know what would.