Pulp Fiction

IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED.

I no longer have to embarrassingly admit that I have never seen Pulp Fiction.  I feel like I'm finally apart of this club that is made up of only cool people.  It feels good to be here.

I am also happy to say that I LOVED IT.  That Quentin Tarantino definitely never disappoints.  He has perfected his unique style of film, and is always amazing to watch as he turns entertainment for the masses into an art form.  He takes stylistic risk by challenging the neat and orderly style of typical hollywood movies.  The more I watch Quentin Tarantino films, the more I have grown for appreciate Tarantino as a director.

The film not ordered in chronological order, much like other Tarantino movies.  I think this approach really calls on the audience to piece the movie together on their own.  I thought that this stylistic approach was affective since creates a game of sorts for audience, which kept me involved with the movie all the way to the end.
Pulp Fiction was the perfect mix of satire and realistic drama.  The film redefines dark comedies as it brings humorous dialogue to serious situations.  The writing was amazing, which really helped give such depth to each character in the movie.

I have a tendency to pick my favorite character/actor in the movie, and I was impressed by almost every character's performance.  Travolta and Jackson's chemistry as the two "gangster" hit men was amazing. The two's rapport was enough to make me love this movie.  Uma Thurman's brief, but iconic role in Pulp Fiction just solidified her outstanding acting abilities.

Bonnie & Clyde

So this week I got the original Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which was actually made the same year as the last movie I watch from the Fish Bowl, The Graduate.  The past 3 movies I've watched have some weird connection to the last.  Lets see if next week it happens again!

So Bonnie and Clyde is a movie depiction of the real-life crime duo Bonnie and Clyde.  They were famous for robbing banks across America and being very public about their lawlessness through photographs.  In the movie, Bonnie and Clyde form a bank-robbing group with Clyde's brother and his wife, along with C.W., a young man they met along the way of their crime spree.

Overall, the movie was good.  It had a storyline that was pretty easy to follow, but it was very predictable to me.  Bonnie was a southern girl bored with her life, while Clyde was fresh out of prison looking for excitement.  Naturally Bonnie was smitten with Clyde's wild lifestyle, and decided to impulsively leave her life behind to follow join Clyde, within a day of meeting him.  The rest of the movie follows them as they rob banks and escape from the cops.  Of course, their life of crime doesn't last forever.