Pulp Fiction is just that. It is a set of different scenarios thrown together under one name. When watching this movie, we begin to find similarities and congruences, pointing us in the direction we feel Tarantino is leading us to. Just when we think we've figured it out, we are yet again thrown another loop and end up back at square one. The characters we are introduced to don't seem to fit into the puzzle. Why are we being introduced to this character, and of what relevance is he/she to the story? How do all of these plot lines tie in? Where are we going? Is there a point to all this?
There is.
The point isn't to find what Tarantino's connections are, but rather to find our own connections. What are our own interpretations? How do we view life and the little things within it? We are meant to relate, as a viewer, to each character within the movie. Butch (Bruce Willis) struggles with his past and is unable to take responsibility for his actions. Vincent Vega (John Travolta) is a hot-headed philosopher, playing Devil's Advocate and methodically doubting to win an argument. Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) plays the part of a free-spirited extrovert. And Jules Winfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is the faithful one, finding the greater meaning through his intellectual deductions. These characters are all of our friends, all of our acquaintances, peers, professors, neighbors, and ourselves, even. We cannot superimpose ourselves into any one character, because we are all of them at once.
When walking out of the theater, Tarantino had one goal. It wasn't to win a handful of Academy Awawrds or gross millions of dollars. His goal was to make you think. To make you think of your situation in life, who you are, who you were and who you want to be. Don't push away your thoughts of fear, jealousy or anxiety. Like the different plot lines in his movie, embrace them and find your own meaning.
I have found my own meanings. As I hope you will, as well. I may be Jules some days and Vincent on others. Some days I find nothing better than going outside and relaxing in the sun while others I find I would rather sit down in my room and philosophize for hours on end. The point is to find your own meaning from everything around you and everything that has happened in your life. I am who I am today because of my family, my friends, my experiences, my taste in music, my political ideals, my conversations from day to day, the strangers I bump into on the bus, the late night infomercials I fall asleep to and, especially, the flick I watched at my friend's house one afternoon that blew my mind.
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