Pulp Fiction
“Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.”
1994 | R | 154 min | Thriller · Crime
4.5of 5
1 review
One review so far — the second is where the argument starts.
How the fandom split
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Synopsis
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Order and ChaosThemeEveryone here works to a code — Jules's scripture, the Wolf's timetable, Butch's inherited watch — and the joke is that a bathroom door outranks all of them.
- Food as CharacterMotifThe film opens and closes in a diner and treats a burger with the seriousness of scripture; eating is where these characters negotiate, and where one of them is converted.
- Time Out of OrderMotifVincent dies in the third movement and is alive in the fourth; the reshuffle is not a trick but a moral device, letting the film close on the one man who walks away.
nonlinear timeline / hitman / diner / boxer / dark comedy
Credits
Box office · USD, worldwide
×26.7return on budget
Budget
$8.0M
Revenue
$213.9M
