Pulp Fiction: A Perfect Example of Violence In Cinema

Director Quentin Tarantino used to say. “Violence is just one of many things you can do in movies. People ask me, 'Where does all this violence come from in your movies?' I say, 'Where does all this dancing come from in Stanley Donen movies?' If you ask me how I feel about violence in real life, I have many feelings about it. It's one of the worst aspects of America. In movies, violence is incredible. I like it.”

When I thought of what he said, I related to every movie that he made, and the color of violence in his movie is so good and so haunting at the same time. I cannot think of any better movie by Quentin Tarantino than Pulp Fiction.

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This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and it is the first movie by Quentin Tarantino I have ever watched. His movie style is so unique and different from other directors. Long dialogs, Red Apple cigarettes, cursing words, shots of feet, and violence is his trademark. I am always impressed by every scene he brings to the screen when I watch his movies. The stories related much to history, like Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; hit hard on racism like Django Unchained; and tough leading female characters like Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, or Death Proof. But overall, violence must be included in every Quentin Tarantino movie, and that is what we most expect from his movie. Whether there are more or less violent scenes, the audience must love all of them.

Pulp Fiction is a rare movie that did not follow the chronological order. In the opening scene, where two robbers were talking about robbery and murder, I feel like the rest of the movie will be about crime, purge, blood, and vengeance, and all of the characters in this movie are so strange and not expected. The violence in the movie is the same as in real life. Movies are primarily about real life, they are so realistic and familiar with every event of real life that any of us can face. Two gangsters, Jules and Vincent, follow the order of their boss Marcellous, find the suitcase, and are ready to kill all the people who are against their boss. In a scene where Jules asks Brett whether Marcellous looks like a bitch, Brett keeps saying “what” even though Jules has warned him of saying what. Then without considering, he shot him, and then we have a very famous scene. Jules speaks the Bible "Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee," and empties the gun, as well as Vincent. That is an excellent example of violence in his movie. Think about this, in real life, the real gangster would have done the same thing. Like Jimmy Hoffa, they will kill anyone who is their obstacle, torture them and make them vanish.

Not only violence among gangsters. Violence is about racism in real life. In one scene where Butch and Marcellus are in the store of a racist owner, and a big boss like Marcellous is humiliated in front of his man. The Confederate flag in the store shows everything. They torture both, and in the end, Butch slays one of them, and Marcellus slays the other. The violence of that scene can relate to real-life violence where so many slaves and people who fought for Civil Rights in the past century were killed and lynched, and now it is continuing. Quentin is right. Violence is America's problem, and it is nothing good about that. I just don’t know how long it takes to stop all of these, or it will never be.