02 September 2012

Goes to show you never can tell

Pulp Fiction

(1994)
The thing that dawned on me for the first time this time: if not for the high level of sexual tension between Vincent and Mia, which keeps Vincent in the bathroom for an extraordinarily long time lecturing himself on the moral and ethical imperatives of his situation, Mia wouldn't have been left alone with his overcoat long enough to have discovered the heroin, mistaken it for cocaine, and snorted it with potentially fatal results.

Another thing I noticed for the first time, though it's not remotely epiphanic: Laura Lovelace, who plays the diner waitress ("'Garçon' means 'boy'"), is one of two credited musical consultants for the film. Nice work.

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