Grande filme. Certamente está nas cabeças de meu Top Ten. Desde então virei fã do Tarantino. Já tinha visto “Cães de Aluguel” antes, mas só depois de Pulp Fiction reconheci seu trabalho.

Uma das virtudes do filme é a trilha sonora. Meu irmão comprou o CD e ficávamos ouvindo o dia todo. O interessante da trilha é que (nunca vi isso antes… nem depois) entremeando as músicas colocaram faixas que eram passagens do filme: de um total de 16 músicas 3 faixas são exclusivamente cenas do filme e outras 4 são apresentadas junto de suas situações no filme, com diálogos e tudo.

É curioso que meus dois primeiros posts sobre cinema aqui sejam de Pulp Fiction e Crash: os dois filmes apresentam dramas cotidianos que se cruzam por uma série de coincidências. Claro que no Pulp o enfoque é cômico enquanto no Crash é trágico. Mas, mesmo com a comicidade do primeiro, ambos retratam o problema e a banalização da violência em nossa sociedade.

Uma das melhores “quotes” de Pulp Fiction está no podcasting abaixo. Replico o diálogo abaixo:

JULES: Okay so, tell me again about the hash bars.
VINCENT: Okey what do you want to know?
JULES: Well, hash is legal over there, right?
VINCENT: Yeah,It’s legal but it ain’t hundred percent legal, I mean, you just can’t walk into a restaurant,
roll a joint and start puffin’ away. They want you to smoke in your home or certain designated places.
JULES: And those are the hash bars?
VINCENT: Yeah, It breaks down like this, ok, it’s legal to buy it, it’s legal to own it,
And if you’re the proprietor of a hash bar, it’s legal to sell it.
It’s legal to carry it, but…but that dosen’t matter, ’cause, get a load of this; all right,
If you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it’s illegal for them to search you.
I mean that’s a right the cops in Amsterdam don’t have.
JULES: Oh, man, I’m goin’, that’s all there is to it. I’m fuckin’ goin’.
VINCENT: I know, baby, you’d dig it the most.. But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is?
JULES: What?
VINCENT: It’s the little differences. A lotta the same shit we got here,
they got there, but there they’re a little different.
JULES: Example ?
VNCENT: Alright, when you …. into a movie theatre in Amsterdam, you can buy beer.
And I don’t mean in a paper cup either. They give you a glass of beer
And in Paris, you can buy beer at MacDonald’s.
And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
JULES: They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
VINCENT: No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
JULES: What’d they call it?
VINCENT: They call it Royale with Cheese.
JULES: Royale with Cheese. What’d they call a Big Mac?
VINCENT: Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.
JULES: Le big Mac ! Ahhaha, what do they call a Whopper?
VINCENT: I dunno, I didn’t go into a Burger King.
But you know what they put on french fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
JULES: What?
VINCENT: Mayonnaise.
JULES: Goddamn!
VINCENT: I seen ‘em do it man, they fuckin’ drown ‘em in it.
JULES: Uuccch!