*this is a spoiler alert for those who have not seen Pulp Fiction*
Pulp Fiction is a movie
one needs to keep up with. It holds the attention of the viewers by placing
scenes of the movie out of order. The movie opens with the last scene. There is
a couple discussing how they will rob a restaurant instead of a liquor store.
After this scene, it cuts to Jewels and Vince who are retrieving the brief case.
Next, shows Butch making a deal with Marcel (The Mob boss) where he will throw
the boxing match; this is where Jewels and Vince drop the brief case off. The
following scene is where Vince takes Marcel’s wife, Lia, out to dinner upon
Marcel’s request. After dinner, Vince takes Lia home where she finds his
heroin, snorts it, and overdoses. He rushes her to a friend’s house and saves
her life. The next scene is Butch as a child. Here his father’s friend is
giving him Butch’s father’s watch which is something extremely close to him.
After this scene Butch wakes up, as an adult sweating, looking back on this
event. Continuing, Butch does not throw the match. He goes to the hotel where
his girlfriend is and asks for his watch. She does not have it so he freaks out
and drives back to his apartment to find Vince, Marcel’s guy, there to kill
him. Butch kill
Vince and retrieves his watch. Next, Butch is driving back to
his girlfriend; at a stop sign Marcel is walking by, see’s Butch, there is a
big scene and Butch and Marcel end up in a shop where Marcel is raped and Butch
ends up saving him. (I know weird scene, it is hard to explain). After this
Marcel gives him a pass and tells him to leave LA and never come back.
The
movie jumps back to where Jewels and Vince are retrieving the mysterious brief
case and kills the three kids who are watching it. They get there middle man
and leave. In the car, Vince is talking to the middle man and accidently shoots
him. Jewels gets mad and has to call his friend Jimmy to help clean up the
mess. It takes some time but the mess is cleaned up and Vince and Jewels walk
out in Jimmy’s clothes because theirs are covered in blood. The scene then goes
back to the beginning scene that we see. Vince and Jewels are eating breakfast
after the long crazy morning they have and the couple attempts the robbery,
fails because of Jewels and Vince, and then they leave. This is the last scene.
Pulp Fiction is a great
movie to watch. It is something that keeps you thinking throughout the movie.
If I did not watch it with my friends I do not think I would have completely
understood it right away. The annoying point about this movie is it never shows
what is in this important brief case. I also like this part because it keeps
the movie alive after.
I think if the plot was
put in a traditional way it would lose its unique theme and identity really. I
do not think it would be a popular movie if the scenes were not mixed up.
If I were to grade this
movie on an A – F scale, I would give it a B+. It is a good movie but it is not
something that I am usually interested in. I liked the story line to a certain
point. I am not a fan of mobs and killing to be honest. I did enjoy the humor
in the movie. There were a few time where I was laughing because of the stupid
funny stuff the characters would say.
Overall Pulp Fiction was a
decent movie and I would recommend it to others. I do not think I would add it
to my movie collection, but I do believe it is a one-time movie watch.
The link provided here is a
timeline of Pulp Fiction in chronological order and in its actual version side
by side. It is something that helped me understand the movie.
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