Nihilism In Pulp Fiction

It’s easy to compare Pulp Fiction with Kill Bill. Most people who watch these movies are so wrapped in the violence that they don’t really see the many different layers about the violence in these films. Pulp Fiction is more of a movie about a mobster culture whose tied with a sense of morality that in some ways resembled our own. There were good deeds, and there was betrayal. The movie made the world seem cold-hearted, and didn’t give much hope for ethics or even a twisted spirituality. The movie was easy to relate to, even though it was full of killers.
Kill Bill on the other hand wasn’t concerned with morality at all, and doesn’t really allow us to relate to it’s characters. The movie wasn’t about character development, or the growth of the …show more content…
Tarantino has always been a director that I admire, but never really analyzed. Conrad voices his opinion on the violence in Tarantino movies, but also the importance of the violence. Conrad ties nihilism into religion, and tries to make sense out of why Tarantino does what he does in films. Some people may believe that Tarantino isn’t that deep or philosophical about his movies. Some people believe that his movies are what they are, just a blood-bath. Conrad thinks differently, and I agree. Tarantino knows what he’s doing in films, he’s making sense out of this world we live in. He’s giving these characters a reason to live, or letting them find out what they’re meaning in life is. Tarantino has a plot in each movie, but like ten other sub-plots that’s going to tie all together at the end. His movies have social situations. They have middle class, lower class and upper class of people. Regardless of what class some of his characters are in, it’s about who has the power. Who is the leader in his films? Tarantino doesn’t abide to wealth in characters, but more likely what kind of control these characters