• Pulp Fiction - Journey and Redemption

     

    Essays2 Art

Evaluation:
Published: 23.09.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Pulp Fiction - Journey and Redemption', 1.
  • Essays 'Pulp Fiction - Journey and Redemption', 2.
Extract

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 previously. First thing you know you're saluting. This story is a cleverly disorienting journey through a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity, and vibrant local color. Nothing is predictable or familiar within this irresistibly bizarre world. You do not merely enter a theater to see Pulp Fiction: you go down a rabbit hole.
Theater is an actor moving through time and space, telling a story. In Quentin Terintenio's, Pulp Fiction, the actors portray savvy modern-day gangsters and the story is three stories told in backwards order. …

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