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Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avery.

Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Rosanna Arquette…. among others.

Rating: Worth a watch- ad infinitum.

Classifying Pulp Fiction into a genre would be a gross belittlement of its quality. The movie is, in an approximate sense of the term, perfect. The movie has everything you can ask for, a brilliant storyline, colourful characters, an excellent soundtrack and lines you can’t help but memorize and repeat for weeks after watching the movie. It’s easily the strongest contender for the coolest movie ever made.

The movie is a typical Tarantino flick, which if you look closely, is a very oxymoronic statement. The movie, like most of QT’s works has a non-linear storyline and is peppered with a number of pop-culture references. The movie was nominated for 6 oscars and won 1, which this humble amateur thinks was a major travesty of justice. The film also won a BAFTA award and the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes film festival.

Summarizing the story will spoil the fun for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie but here’s the gist of it- Vincent Vega- the heroin shooting one(Travolta) and Jules Winnfield- the Bible passage reciting one(Jackson) are hitmen who are sent to retrieve a briefcase stolen from their employer and mob kingpin, Marsellus Wallace(Rhames). Winston “The Wolf” Wolfe(Keitel) is a “cleaner” sent to clean up after the hitmen accidentally shoot a hapless college kid in the head. Butch Coolidge(Willis) is a prizefighter who is paid a large sum of money by Marsellus Wallace to take a dive in his upcoming fight but double-crosses his. Pumpkin(Roth) and Honey Bunny(Amanda Plummer) are small-time crooks who decide to hold up a restaurant on an impulse. Mia Wallace(Thurman), Marsellus’s coke-addicted, OD’ing wife is taken out by Vincent at her husband’s request as he is out of town. All this and much more is brilliantly woven into a non-linear storyline with three sub-storylines.

If you haven’t seen the movie, watch it. If you’ve seen it and haven’t liked it watch it again, maybe you were a bit under the weather.

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