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Film Analysis: Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction was an instant sensation; making 107.93 million. It was written by Quientin Tarantino and released in 1994. Pulp Fiction is about two hit men Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) who are in charge of picking up a brief case stolen from Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) their boss. (Plot Summary) Vincent is suppose to take Marsellus’s wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), out on a date so she doesn’t get lonely while he is out of town, but at the end things do not go as planned. Mia over doses, so Vincent and a friend of his, Lance (Eric Stoltz), attempt to save her life. Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is a boxer Marsellus paid to lose his next fight, but instead he kills the other boxer. He then tries to flee the …show more content…

In the scene where Marsellus is meeting with Butch in the bar; you can only see the back of his head. On the back of his neck is a Band-Aid. It is said that behind the Band-Aid is how you could get to his soul. In one of the beginning scenes Jules and Vincent surprise these young men to get back a brief case from them. When Vincent opens it up a glowing gold light shines on his face. It is said that it was Marsellus’s soul and he has sold his soul to the devil. The young men were suppose to be working for the devil. The whole movie has an underlying theme is God, good and evil. Every time right before Jules would shoot someone he would say, “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 the 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 I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you." (IMDb) In the last scene of the movie you are watching a conversation between Jules and Pumpkin (Diner Thief). Jules is debating if people like pumpkin are the evil, he is the righteous man, and his gun is the shepherd protecting him. Or if he (Jules) was the evil man, Pumpkin was the good and that it was the world that was

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