Melt like Pulp in Pulp Fiction

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Danny DeVito, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Richard N. Gladstein
Scriptwriters: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, etc.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Year: 1994

“Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it is necessary to talk about bullshit in order to be comfortable?” Mia asked Vincent.

        Pulp Fiction, a film that was widely praised by critics of its time for daring to bring an unusualness to the ranks of Hollywood films. Not only that, Quentin Tarantino, who was still 30 years old, was praised for showing a film with a duration of 2 hours 58 minutes without making the audience bored. This is supported by the results of the characters' dialogues that he wrote together with Roger Avary. This film has three main stories, where there is a prologue and epilogue of each part tucked in it. In 1970-2000, the public was treated to many crime films by Hollywood with the theme "The minions of a big mafia boss who were sent to kill their enemies or business partners." This film, directed by Quentin Tarantino, is also not spared where Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are sent by their boss, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), to kill Brett, his former business partner. This part is where we start to see the strangeness or satire shown by Tarantino for the audience of Hollywood's Crime. While in all Hollywood films, the mafia is depicted as a ruthless and reliable figure in killing people, but not Jules and Vincent. They kill in an unusual way, where we can find a killer discussing our breakfast and then tasting it before actually killing us? 

        There are so many things that violate the grip of a Hollywood mafia movie in Pulp Fiction. Another example is when we get used to seeing subordinates sleeping with his boss's wife when asked to accompany him to dinner, but Vincent is here trying to prove himself a loyalist who will not betray his boss. When Vincent is confused about how to get home, Mia (Uma Thurman), the wife of Mr. Wallace, instead collapses due to an overdose of the crystal methamphetamine brought by Vincent. The night that the audience expects to be a "hot" night turns into a ridiculous night when we see the process to save Mia from death.

        The satire continues in Pulp Fiction. The satire appears in the second part of the story when Mr. Wallace runs into his business partner who ran away with his money, Butch (Bruce Willis). Butch is having a chase and gunfight that ends up at the thrift store. Finally, the shop owner caught the two, almost dying, and called the police. This part is where we are slapped again by Tarantino, where usually we are presented with the arrest of a prominent mob boss who is excited, but Mr. Wallace and Butch were instead taken to an empty store basement. There was only a cage and torture device. It turns out that the shop owner and the police are gays who kept their "sex slave" in there. The police also attacked Mr. Wallace.

        We are aware that revising a standard is not a mistake in this film. It is proven that Tarantino can earn 213 million USD from only 8.5 million USD. At the beginning of the film, we will see the definition of the word Pulp, which means a soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. We can define Pulp as something that does not have a solid and liquid form like Pulp.

        Understanding that this film will be out of shape because of all its ideas that melt like Pulp, Quentin Tarantino with his youthful post-mo spirit, and Pulp Fiction's nonlinear plot is like saying that sometimes we need to break a rule and start changing something that holds our safe zone.