Opiniões dos críticos

It grafts contemporary narrative onto arcane roots in antiquity to create a novel way of resolving the delusions of myopic grandeur that beset Jules Winfield, a thug in need of redemption. The America Tarantino presents here is one where hype and entertainment paralyse the human spirit, as the market-economy goes about its business shredding the wellbeing of its' citizens…the sense that an intractable appetite for personal gratification had become America's raison d'etre is all pervasive.

Pulp Fiction is quite innocent, both obnoxiously and endearingly so. It's undeniably a personal film, but it's a personal ode to impersonality, to emotional evasion through stuff... Something like Pulp Fiction, which has grown more and more pleasurable over the years, can almost play like disreputable porn that allows us to drink in the forbidden pleasures of tactile variety, whether it's of humans, toys, objects, or outfits.

We [Generation X] were primed for a movie like Pulp Fiction. Its narrative and visual and aural pastiche, spitting pop cultural allusions like sparks from a grinding wheel, spoke a language we instinctively understood. Pulp Fiction didn't define us so much as it revealed us, by dramatizing our sensibilities to the world.

Like Reservoir Dogs before it, Pulp Fiction defines transgression and attitude largely through language. Most noticeably, it celebrates racial verbal abuse within an elaborately and strategically muddled PC context. By my count, Pulp Fiction employs the word "nigger" at least 16 times — spoken sometimes by black characters and sometimes by whites, always to great effect. But it does this within a racially complicated narrative framework.