I don't know if you think that today's film and television always have a lot of value, and eating too much will be tasteless.
I'm just a layman, so I just want to see something plain and direct.
Today let's talk about the straightforward "Pulp Fiction".
"Pulp Fiction" is a crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Amanda Pramo, Tim Ross and others.
The whole film is composed of 6 stories, different characters have different stories, and together they form a complete event.
The film received 6 nominations at the 67th Academy Awards, won the Best Original Screenplay Award and the Palme d'Or in the main competition unit of the 47th Cannes Film Festival.
One: structure
Different from the linear narrative structure of general movies, this film is a mode of superimposed multiple lines with a circular structure.
The structure of the film is the organizational arrangement of its content and performance, which can be roughly divided into three categories from a narrative point of view.
One: linearity, that is, there is a beginning and an end, first talk about the cause and then talk about the effect.
Two: non-linearity, that is, showing the change of human psychology rather than the development of reality, such as jumping, blurring and other techniques so that the audience cannot judge who is before and who is after is a non-linear narrative.
Three: anti-linearity, this kind of narrative focuses not on the story but on the mood, showing a certain mood by diluting the characters and plots.
The film uses a non-linear ring structure and a linear multi-line parallel and superimposed narrative method, the film is divided into three short stories and the prologue and epilogue of the beginning and end, the beginning and the end story echo, and the five parts are developed according to the timeline of the event.
Its ring-shaped structure that echoes at the beginning and end gives the whole story a sense of reincarnation that will happen forever and everywhere.
At the beginning of the movie, Vincent and Jules are on their way to recover the boss's suitcase, and after they get the suitcase, the movie jumps to the return mission.
And the middle of the movie is interspersed with the story of Vincent and the boss's mistress, Vincent's death, until the end of the movie, is the story of Vincent and Jules after getting the suitcase.
In this way, Vincent's death is interspersed with the arrangement of stories in two stories that he is still alive, so that Vincent's death becomes not just his death, but a genre image - whether Vincent dies or not, there is always the next "Vincent" to continue his story.
Two: Anomaly
The film comes with unconventional properties.
In the process of watching, the director always tells us certain information in the language of the lens, constantly reinforces it, and then subverts it in absurd and dramatic ways.
The most typical is the underworld boss, who has always played a fierce boss image in previous stories, he disposed of the object of the affair with his mistress, controlled the results of the boxing match, and shot and killed the boxer on the street, but later, he became the object of rape, and even the boxer he chased to save him.
The director uses this transformation of strong and weak positions to bring the whole story to a kind of drama.
And Vincent's fate with the toilet.
In the story of Vincent and the boxer, Vincent leaves the gun at the toilet door, and the gun is picked up by the boxer and then shot Vincent.
In the story of the breakfast restaurant, Vincent escaped robbery because he went to the toilet, and even completed the counter-kill because he brought a gun.
The same people, the same events, produce the absurd perverse effect of subversion by chance.
Three: Jules
Also at the beginning and end of the movie, Jules says the same thing.
"The path of the righteous is besieged by tyrannical wicked, who guide the weak in the name of charity and goodwill, and blessed the one who passes through the valley of darkness, for he takes care of his companions and finds the lost lamb. I will take revenge on them, and if anyone dares to harm my companions, then they will know that I am the Lord. ”
On both occasions, Jules took a completely different approach.
The first time he said this, Jules killed the other party. The second time, Jules let the other go.
Jules transforms the good and evil of these words into strength and weakness, from the transcendence of good and evil to the control of the world by the strong.
But the funny thing is that when his cognition is good and evil, he kills people, and when his cognition is strong or weak, he lets the other person go.
He went from being a hypocritical killer to a strong man for good.
Jules chose to end up seeking truth like an ascetic, as he does in his image of a believer in the story.
Perhaps we can also find moments full of coincidences, possibilities, parallelism and overlap in our lives, like this movie.
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Image: Pulp Fiction