I don't get Pulp Fiction!

Originally Posted by SPIDEI2_MAN__ (Post 139424)

i usually get movies like that..for instance..i cracked Donnie Darko first time i saw it..Identity too...sixth sense was very predictablke to me etc etc..

but i have no idea what pulp fiction is about i need someone to just flat out tell me what this movie means or whatever

just saw the movie for the first time in theatre yesterday.

seeing the movie , i felt that the moviemaker definitely believes in god or at least has made the movie on the premise that god exists .

the character played by samuel l jackson believes that when the guy hidden in the apartment ( where he and travolta had gone to kill some other person ) missed hitting him and travolta even after firing all bullets , it was some kind of divine intervention and also signal for him to stop his killings ( which he did for his boss ) and leave crime for an ordinary life .

later when jackson tells travolta about this , travolta derides him and says that he ( jackson ) will be nothing but a roadside bum if he gives up his career in crime .

but look at what happens to john travolta later . he is killed by bruce willis when he goes to kill bruce in his apartment . if travolta had followed what samuel l jackson had said about the hidden man missing his mark being some divine signal to stop crime and had stopped crime , then he ( travolta )would have been alive because then he would not have gone to willis' apartment to kill him and would not have himself got killed .

on the other hand samuel l jackson gives up crime and hence lives on . and he also allows the thief in the restaurant to live . so listening to the divine signal to stop crime did pay off for him---not only he lived while travolta ( who had derided him for giving up crime and himself had not listened to the divine signal ) died , but he went on to do the good deed of letting the restaurant thief go alive .

so the director means to say that god's signals should be heeded and you are punished ( like john travolta was ) if you dont heed them . on the other hand heeding the divine signal leads to betterment of life .

or so i thought.....