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Essay / Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino - 906
The film Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, contains violence, sex and drugs but is an underlying religious film. The five main characters follow the lord and are rewarded, or they follow the devil and are punished. John Travolta plays Vincent Vega, Ving Rhames plays Marcellus Wallace and Uma Thurman plays Mia Wallace, these three characters represent evil and sin. Samuel L. Jackson plays Jules Winnefield and Bruce Willis plays Butch Coolidge and these characters represent good and follow a righteous path. The film is divided into four distinct sections which are not ordered chronologically but coincide with each other at the end of the film. Pulp Fiction is a violent, drug-addicted, sexual film that promotes strong religious messages by choosing the righteous man or the devil's way. At the start of the film, Vincent and Jules are cold-blooded murderous gangsters. They enter an apartment to obtain an important symbol from the film. It's a briefcase that opens with the numbers six, six, six, which are a sign of the devil. The case belongs to Marcellus and is the first sign that he is an evil character. In order to recover the briefcase, Vincent and Jules must kill people in the apartment. Before Julius murders anyone, he recites a verse from Ezekiel 25:17: “The path of the righteous man is assailed on every side by the injustices of the world. selfishness and the tyranny of wicked men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, guides the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and seeker of lost children. upon you with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you have... middle of paper... his valley of darkness. the weakling offers Marcellus forgiveness to Butch for initiating the fight and allows the blow to Butch's head to be reversed, then rides off into the sunset on a motorcycle or helicopter. Pulp Fiction was brilliantly designed to hide religious morality through a. inappropriate movie. Beneath the surface of drugs and violence, the path of righteousness and the lure of sin are present throughout the film. Janet Maslin of The New York Times says that "Pulp Fiction" leaves its viewers with a stunning vision of destiny, choices and spiritual possibilities. The film doesn't need to become explicitly religious to resonate when a character escapes death on a motorcycle labeled "Grace." The film was very discreet about the appearance of religious morality it projected to audiences..