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Pulp Fiction

Cinema City

12/07/19

So on the 10th of July 2019, I got the chance to see one of my all time favourite movies on the big screen, and this cinematic experience just illustrated further why‘Pulp Fiction’is an exercise in cool.

Weaving together a collection of stories set in L.A, sees us flit forward and back in time with hit-men, former bank robbers, a crime boss and his failed TV star wife, a boxer and the ultimate fix it man now ruined in Direct Line adverts.

The title 'Pulp Fiction'derives from pulpy magazines and crime novels that were prone to violence and electric language. Quentin Tarantino's script perfectly reflects that style, as all the way through his film there smacks a sense of crackling, dynamic dialogue and flashes of blood-soaked drama. The line-up of plots that cross pathsare exercises in vivid crime story-telling and hilarity, Tarantino sure knows how to juggle all these characters and each one of them jumpsoff the pulpy pages and cement themselves in film history. 
After the diamond heist focus of 'Reservoir Dogs', Tarantinostepsup from a singular location and really breaksforward with figures that deliver zing after zing, hit after hit and even though this is a movie that hasvery little action, you are utterly entranced because the script possesses such animated language. The zip and crackle which speeds through the narrative is highly entertaining; it's just one of those treats which is fresh and riveting from start to finish. 

The stellar cast bury into their roles andit's with Vincent ,on his initially awkward night out with Mia that one of the most seminal scenes in cinema history occurs. Jack Rabbit Slims; a retro diner and location of the coolest, quirkiest twist off between Uma Thurman and John Travolta, the Chuck Berry vocals punctuate their movements and seeing the dance on a big screen was like a divine dream come true. 
'Pulp Fiction' may be simple when broken down; it's just 3-4 stories that get broken up and shuffled about, but it's thanks to this non-chronological structure that you feel drawn into seeing how each character gets to each place or how they may join the same path.

I know I'm biased but 'PulpFiction'is as close to perfection as humanely possible. The film holds up, it screams cool and is a movie absolutely rammed with quotable delights.

9/10