8 Problems With Pulp Fiction That Nobody Wants To Admit

8. It's Essentially About Nothing

"Only in this age could a writer as talented as Tarantino produce artworks so vacuous, so entirely stripped of any politics, metaphysics, or moral interest." - James Wood, The Guardian

When you think about it, Pulp Fiction isn't about anything it all. It doesn't stand for anything, it doesn't tell you anything, and it doesn't say anything. In the quote highlighted about, writer James Wood expands on this theory with regards to Tarantino's entire output, but Pulp Fiction seems to be the most guilty of being without politics and opinion and morals.

Though one could certainly argue that its vapid nature is actually the very point of the movie, that the very intention of Pulp Fiction is as tribute to the vacuous, popular culture-obsessed nature of the '90s, so what? On a fundamental level, Pulp Fiction has nothing to say - it is fun and exciting and cool and perhaps even brilliant, but it's a hollow experience.

However you look at it, a piece of art with a legacy as huge as this one that also has nothing of importance to say... well, it's a sad state of affairs, really.