Review: Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino's second feature, Pulp Fiction, is at once ridiculously entertaining and remarkably weightless.There are several trivial episodes in this movie which are forming a horizontal structure and they are oddly connected anyway.

Pulp Fiction's success made Travolta reputable again.

Travolta and Uma Thurman have a sequence that's funny and bizarre. She's the wife of the mob boss (Ving Rhames), who orders Travolta to take her out for the night. They go to Jack Rabbit Slim's, a 1950s theme restaurant and they end up in a twist contest. 
This is one of the most famous scenes in 1990's.

He's attached to a watch from grandfather's ass.

Bruce Willis and Maria de Medeiros play another couple. He's a boxer named Butch Coolidge who cherishes a wristwatch. The history of this watch is described in a flashback, Vietnam veteran Christopher Walken tells young Butch about how the watch was purchased by his great-grandfather and has come down through the generations - and through a lot more than generations, for that matter. Walken's monologue builds to the movie's biggest laugh.

In this manner, the movie enumerates separate episodes and let audiences know they are linked to each other after all. The method of the movie is to involve its characters in sticky situations, and then let them escape into stickier ones. Characters are messed up in that process finally we cannot help laughing at what seemed serious yet.

Reference

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/pulp-fiction