Pulp Fiction at 30
An iconic shot in Pulp Fiction . Pulp Fiction turns 30 today. It was a sensation in 1994 and I saw it in the theater several times. Something struck me while watching the DVD this time around. The film is an iconic, episodic masterpiece, but, somewhat surprisingly, there is only the thinnest narrative stitching all the memorable scenes together. Writer/Director/Actor Quentin Tarantino chose to tell the story non-linearly. Chronologically speaking, the last scene (Butch on a chopper with his girlfriend) actually happens with over 42 minutes remaining in the picture and the first scene we see (the diner robbery) is something that occurs near the end of the story. I know some people have found the film “difficult to follow” or are unclear as to the “point” of it all. Sigh. There is no “point” to Pulp Fiction . That is part of the point. These remarkable scenes do connect but that is not as important as it normally is in a given film. They do so only to satisfy our deep psychol
