Pulp Fiction got all the attention in 1994 for its non-linear and fragmented stories. Too bad it overshadowed another film that came out the same year and also was divided up into vignettes; one which had much more serious and important ideas in mind. Unlike Pulp Fiction, which makes fun of violence, Before the Rain shows us the sad reality of the world we live in where violence, hatred, and war are very much apart of it. Also unlike Pulp Fiction, non of the film’s three segments have to occur in any particular order to affect one another. They operate more like a cycle in which violence and hate keeps going around and around, never stopping and always resulting in tragedy. The effects are haunting and profound. This is one the best films of the 1990’s.