This last weekend class we view Reservoir Dogs in calls and this was the first time I have seen this movie and really besides the two Kill Bill movies I have not seen any other Quentin Tarantino films. I had a very big perception that his movies were extremely graphic with over the top violent which is not my choice in movies. With watching Reservoir Dogs and Pulp fiction I do have a completely different opinion of Tarantino’s work.
First thing with the movie I truly love the opening scene were everyone is seating around the table at the diner. The low angle shots and circling the table as each person speaks the camera stops and focus on that persons as a way to introduce that character to the viewers. You can tell that with Tarantino that the dialogs in his movies are very important to how the stories are told.
From the graphic and violent views that I had perception on were justified but it is no more over the top than any other movie I have seen that has a violent story. The change that I had been when it gets real graphic when Mr. Blonde goes to cut the ear off the cop that they took hostage is not even shown and it’s up me and my imagination is a lost art since everyone is trying for more shock value in movies today.
The violence was not any more than in newer films and I didn't see the just and making it seem bad, but for its time, that could have been true. Love the breakfast round table conversation and the music as they all left.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting how there is a broad perception that Tarantino is this maniac bent on showing gratuitous violence when really . . . it's not that violent? Horror movies are far worse. Most action films are far worse. I wonder why this happens . . .
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