Pulp Fiction - JOURNEY AND REDEMPTION

Ian Burke                                                                                          9-23-96 JOURNEY AND REDEMPTION Pulp Fiction Style         Pulp Fiction is like boot camp for the Marines. You come into it from your civilized life, they subject you to violent language until you're numb, they abuse you verbally and physically until all of your normal feelings and values are reduced to dust. Leaving you aware that you have changed, and able to describe the change, you find yourself questioning the person you were …

…depict, analyze, or critique it. Suspending the viewers' moral judgments makes it that much easier for the story to sustain its startling tone. The violent events are offset with unexpected laughter, the contrast of moods becomes liberating, calling attention to the real choices the characters make. In these choices the audience cheers for the good guys, who are the stereotypical bad guys, and celebrates life by questioning their own at the end of the story.