Recommended: Pulp Fiction

Whose up for the most shameless, apathetic degradation that only true art can offer to a hungry public?  Pulp Fiction wins the best of the worst film award for a production that single-handedly raised John Travolta’s rotting career from the dead and made him back into one of the biggest movie stars of the 21st Millenium. 

In the late 1990’s, this was the masterpiece work of Quentin Tarantino’s career which also changed the way movies are made and left “Generation Next” laughing until they cried.  Tarantino went on to make several more films and was hailed as a genius but nothing ever compared to this entirely unique film which first catapulted him into stardom.

Pulp Fiction is the story of two gangsters, Vincent and Jules (played by Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson) who are a seemingly ‘cultured duo’ but who encounter many humorous difficulties with their pride.  The two originally set out to collect on a deal gone bad for their gang leader Marsellus Wallace (played by Ving Rymes) and they encounter a seeming ‘miracle’ when their lives are spared from a sudden barrage of bullets in a small apartment building in Los Angeles. 

Being inspired by the miracle, Jules sets out to change his life but Vincent refuses to acknowledge the miracle and thereby encounters further problems along the way.  Through a series of ambiguous events which are simultaneously horrifying, shameless and humorous, the two gangsters live out their adventure intertwined amongst a series of other amazing characters, most notably Butch the Boxer (played by Bruce Willis) and Mia (played by Uma Thurman) who spice things up for the ‘cultured duo’ along the way. 

Vincent and Jules find their way though a circuitous path of moral degradation and, what is proposed to be, a final redemption at the end of this unspeakable chain of events.  

Don’t bring the kids to this one folks!  In fact, you may find your own innocence will be lost along the way as Pulp Fiction takes cinematic license far beyond what any “R” rated movie has ever done.  This is not for the squeamish or the lighthearted movie-goer even if the genre is intended to be funny. 

With a great backup cast including Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino himself, this shocking and entirely unique movie wins the “Best of the worst” of all time.  The plot is well crafted and the dialogue is priceless even if you find you have lost your better nature along the way.  Leave the kids at home and only attend this film with your closest, most forgiving loved ones.  Pulp fiction is an artful masterpiece of unspeakable, shameless glory.

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