Pulp Fiction (1994) is certainly a masterpiece of a movie and cannot be left unmentioned when talking about films which made history and, with it having reached its 30 year mark, I can personally confirm that, despite its age, the movie has yet to lose its charm. The cast is made up of some of the most important actors from the 90s such as John Travolta (Grease 1978, Face Off 1997, …) or Bruce Willis (Die Hard 1988, The Sixth Sense 1999, …). This significantly helped the film’s marketing and paired with the success of the directors, Tarantino (first film was Reservoir Dogs) the movie managed to attract increasing numbers of spectators.

The plot follows three different stories, presented to us in a non-chronological sequence of events, all connected to each other by one person: the crime boss Marsellus Wallace. 

The first one covers the troubled assignment of the gangsters Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) as they follow their boss’s (Marsellus Wallace) orders of retrieving a mysterious briefcase, but come across a series of problems in doing so. In the second story, we see Vincent Vega taking out to dinner Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman), Marsellus Wallace’s wife, as instructed by her husband to not keep her lonely while he was out of town. The episode develops as we get to explore Mia’s world and the simple and ordinary dialogues that the two share about life. In the third episode, we are introduced to Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), a boxer close to his career’s end, who is bribed by Mr. Wallace to lose his last match. Coolidge double-crosses the gangster and thus has to leave town, but not before retrieving his most precious possession: his golden watch…

Pulp Fiction isn’t just your typical movie. It is a proper work of art which requires you to pay attention to it from start to finish to notice all of Tarantino’s techniques and symbolisms present to highlight the film’s main theme of redemption. We see this being expressed especially with the character of Jules as he reflects about his life and chooses a more positive and pacific view on it making changes which, if they weren’t made, would’ve resulted in his demise absorbed by the criminal world. I highly recommend everyone to watch this film at least once!