Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

Two thugs, Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield, spend time in philosophical conversations in between showdowns and "solving problems" with the debtors of their crime boss, Marcelos Wallace. Three stories unfold in parallel. In the first of them, Vincent takes care of Marcelos' wife Mia and saves her from a drug overdose. The second tells the story of Butch Coolidge, a boxer who framed Marcelos by winning a fight he should have lost. The third story unites the first two - a couple of young unlucky robbers are in a cafe - Pumpkin and Bunny Bunny attempt a robbery, but Jules stops them. Read more By genre, the film is an ironic parody of literary and cinematographic stereotypes created by "tabloid literature". The film seems to fall apart into three independent novellas /"Loyalty", "Betrayal", "Crime"/ and into numerous small episodes. But almost all the events are connected with the powerful businessman of the criminal world, Marcellas Wallace. The director manipulates his characters like puppets, plays with them like a child with dolls, is ready, despite his tender love for them, to tear them apart one day. The film has everything: a crazy carnage, cars that do ballet pirouettes in the air and cheerfully break into atoms, virtuoso murders because of women and many other things that interfere with life and thus glorify life. Tarantino demonstrates his ability as a director to balance between subtle irony and gross farce, to use quotes from the history of cinema, to mock the schemes and logic of his native culture. He perceives the cruel and bloody reality as a "natural fiction", something that appeared in a terrible dream. The most scandalous film of the 1994 Cannes International Film Festival, which received the Golden Palm.