{"id":3263,"date":"2018-01-16T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2018-01-16T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:38:47","slug":"quentin-tarantinos-pulp-fiction-movie-based-nihilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/2018\/01\/quentin-tarantinos-pulp-fiction-movie-based-nihilism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Pulp Fiction: A Movie Based On Nihilism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulp Fiction<\/strong><\/a>, an all-time cult classic, contains in itself a lot of metaphysical truths. Dig deeper into the movie than ever before with this guest article by Julien Josset, founder of La-Philosophie.com:<\/a>
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Nihilism is derived from the latin word <\/span>Nihil,<\/i><\/span> which means nothing. Nihilism itself refers to the philosophy which asserts the fact that life itself is particularly useless and holds no particular meaning in it whatsoever. When Nietzsche in his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra<\/a> and The Antichrist claimed about the death of God<\/a>, he referred to the society that has drifted away from its Judeo-Christian essence. God is dead and there is no substitute of a godless world. Its absence left a deep scar in the existence of man itself beckoning people to reason and logic as the scientific revolution begin to find its loftiness in our world. With the absence of religion, lives, in particular, seem to have no utter value and that there is no set of criteria which is bound to make us any less good or worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quentin Tarantino<\/em>\u2019s Pulp Fiction<\/strong><\/a> is a strange and yet an interesting movie. It seems to have been arranged in a kind of a puzzle which speaks from the perspective of everyone in the film. While it may be considered a Crime Classical, there are no signs of law and order to be found. Everyone found in the movie seems to possess a certain trait in them: the mysterious black mobster with a bandage on the back of his head; sexual perverts portrayed as hillbillies; henchmen wearing black suits discussing fast food items; and a mobster in tuxedo attending party. But while these characteristics refer to the actors in the movie, what exactly does the movie say? In general and simple words, the movie refers to the American Nihilism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Butch (Bruce Willis<\/em>) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson<\/em>) are the foci of attention in the movie. The movie starts as Vincent (John Travolta<\/em>) arrives to the US from Europe and Jules and Vincent appear to have a conversation about fast food and TV things and how different they are in Europe, such as Big Mac and Quarter Pounder; television references such as Arnold from the Green Acre<\/em><\/strong> and Fonz from Happy Days<\/strong><\/em>. This may seem like a comic relief<\/a> but this silly and light conversation leads to a violent and unforgiving picture of these two characters that will be seen later on. But it must be focused that all this conversation refers to the absence of the pop culture and symbolism of the 20th century USA. This also refers to the fact that life itself is beyond all these worldly and superficial values and this void, this absence itself can be found in the late 20th century America, especially in the personalities of Jules an Vincent. This is can be largely seen when Vincent and Mia (Uma Thurman<\/em>) visit Jack Rabbit Slim\u2019s, where the popular artists and musicians are seen as ordinary people in any restaurant, such as Ed Sullivan<\/em> being the host; Ricky Nelson<\/em> the singer; Buddy Holly<\/em> the waiter and Marilyn Monroe<\/em> and Jane Mansfield<\/em> the waitresses. <\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the famously used passages from the movie refer to righteous man who is addressed as the shepherd and is willing to help anyone who is lost in the valley of darkness. As sound and righteous it may seem, the other side also suggests that it can be provoked if evil intends to poison its followers. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The path of the righteous man\u2026. and you will know my name is The Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The quote is used by Jules before he kills someone. The quote refers to a guide which suggests how one should live by morals and ethics \u2013 ironically this is absent from Jules’ life itself and becomes null to him. Jules later states that he never gave it attention and was just something he said before he killed someone.<\/span><\/p>\n