Crashbox

5-something pm on a Friday not that long ago, standing in BlockBuster with the annoying dilemma of what to watch? After a seeming endless stream of suggestions and musings we decided on Pulp Fiction. I had only seen it once before and remember being a little stunned (I was high school after all), so I wasn't sure what I would think of it this time around. But you know, it was good. I liked it. And I noticed something about it I didn't pick up on the first time: there is a theme that runs through the whole movie of the desire--albeit an awkward and misguided one---for morality and redemption, which I guess is fairly obvious considering the last scene and how Samuel L. Jackson handles the hold-up; but more than that, the characters who really look hard at making a change in their lives seem to come out okay---they are at least trying to face the right direction---and they walk away in the end, on to (hopefully) better things. The characters who are dismissive and content in their ways however all end up dead or in a really bad way by the end of the film. I might not be right, but I think there is a subtle thread through of faith in merits of living a good life...

But it still is a bloody gross flick.