He uses extreme behavior to manipulate his audience in meaningful ways. In the less gory "Pulp Fiction," where the disturbing scenes (from stories by the director and Roger Avary) are tempered by wild, impossible humor, it's especially clear that there is method to Mr. "Reservoir Dogs" attained well-deserved notoriety for its violence, especially in an expert but excruciating sequence involving the playful torture of a policeman. You don't merely enter a theater to see "Pulp Fiction": you go down a rabbit hole. Nothing is predictable or familiar within this irresistibly bizarre world.
Tarantino's ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color. What proof it is: a triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino, a mostly self-taught, mostly untested talent who spent his formative creative years working in a video store, has come up with a work of such depth, wit and blazing originality that it places him in the front ranks of American film makers.īut tonight, as "Pulp Fiction" opens this year's New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, the proof is on the screen. In fact, it has sparked an excitement bound to look suspect from afar. EVER since Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" created a sensation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it won top honors (the Palme d'Or), it has been swathed in the wildest hyperbole.
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