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Pulp Fiction
I will never forget watching Pulp
Fiction for the first time. I was 14, and my mate from school had some
"connections" which obtained him a copy of the film on video, during the
early days of dubbing movies. After school one day, I went around to
his house like usual, and we watched it in his room. He told me his mum
didn't want us watching it, so we had to be discreet.
We viewed it in secret and what I saw on screen was pretty cool. The characters were criminals essentially, but likeable ones. Before they ‘whacked’ someone, they’d talk about hamburgers, foot massage and Miracles from God! Then I got hit with a huge amount of confusion when it appeared that John Travolta's character had come back from the dead after being shot! I couldn't piece together that the film had gone back to the first story. When the film was finished I was left feeling very confused by this twist in the story and talked about it to all my school mates the following day. Many of them were just impressed that I had seen Pulp Fiction, given it was rated R18+.
We viewed it in secret and what I saw on screen was pretty cool. The characters were criminals essentially, but likeable ones. Before they ‘whacked’ someone, they’d talk about hamburgers, foot massage and Miracles from God! Then I got hit with a huge amount of confusion when it appeared that John Travolta's character had come back from the dead after being shot! I couldn't piece together that the film had gone back to the first story. When the film was finished I was left feeling very confused by this twist in the story and talked about it to all my school mates the following day. Many of them were just impressed that I had seen Pulp Fiction, given it was rated R18+.
It
was a few years later until I watched the film again and had it
explained to me before-hand that the reason JT comes back was that the
film jumped from the end back to the beginning to wrap up that story.
When I watched it a few more times and figured out what was going on in
the other stories, making the connections between the characters, I fell
in love with this film.
I then
went on to discover all of Quentin Tarantino's other films, but for me
my favourite has always been Pulp Fiction. There's just no other film
like it, and I really admire the way it broke all the rules of
conventional cinema and brought John Travolta back into the limelight
again. It also proved that a guy who loved movies (Tarantino) could make
his own movies, please other movie lovers and silence the critics at
the same time. And the story goes that Tarantino worked in a video store
before making Pulp Fiction, apparently watching every film on the
shelves whilst working there. What a great way to build up your movie
knowledge, and I think you can see the thread in all his films; that
being that they are inspired by other films and genres.
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