Pulp Fiction Review

Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 box office hit Pulp Fiction created a new genre: film noir with the sarcasm and disillusionment of the ‘90’s. Base situations and low-life characters somehow do not come off as dramatic and shocking, but rather as ordinary and understandable. Tarantino, a self-taught, one-time video store clerk, has made a film not based on reality but based on film. Pulp Fiction is a tongue-in-cheek look at typical movie clichés, ranging …

…take pleasure in it. Pulp Fiction will not make you re-think your life. On the upside, however; it is selfish viewing pleasure that doesn’t make you feel cheap, sold out and somewhat spat upon as some mindless boy-gets-girl films do. You smirk intellectually at the multiple movie references and homage paid, you scoff, baffled at the odd situations and seemingly out-of-place dialogue, and you walk away feeling strangely enlightened for reasons you cannot explain.