Pulp Fiction Ethics

Introduction

In order to be widely acknowledged by global viewers with the modern demand within movie industry, film producers and directors must have substantial amount of skills and expertise to integrate innovative films. However, they also need to exhibit consistency in producing quality films that keep their audiences entertained. Seemingly, Quentin Tarantino is regarded as one of the most prominent film directors and he is known for his exquisite features incorporated in movies. His most renown works include Inglorious Bastards, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained. Thus, he is considered to be specialized on crime and thriller genres. This paper aims at formulating an analytical response to the movie Pulp Fiction. Produced

The number of scenes with distinctive conflicts exhibit contrasts in ethical ideologies. Considerably, the most important scene in relation ethics and morality entails the robbery setting at the restaurant. Here, Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta), who were Marsellus’ employees, were dining at a restaurant when an amateur criminal named Ringo (Tim Roth) decidedto rob everyone inside. As he picked up wallets and other valuables from the customers, he noticed Jules sitting across the restaurant and walks up to him asking for his wallet and a valuable merchandise that Jules was supposed to deliver to Marsellus. After Jules managed to disarm Ringo, he recited a quote from Ezekiel 25:17, which he always recited before he killed his victims. However, in this case, Jules meddled in to prevent him from killing Ringo even though his prior interpretation of the verse conveyed him as the ‘tyranny of evil men’ who deliver ‘great vengeance and furious anger’ to the weak and unrighteous men. After reciting the verse Jules told Ringo that normally he would have killed him in such circumstances. However, his prior consideration involving the supposed divine intervention, made him reconsider his morality and ethical values. Consequently, he considered himself as the shepherd delivering the weak through the valley of darkness rather than the tyranny of evil having vengeance and anger. Therefore, he told Ringo to take the money from his wallet and leave the restaurant. According to the behavioral traits exhibited by Jules throughout the film, his actions were majorly based on obligations assigned to him by his boss Marsellus. However, he decided to quit his job as Marsellus’ employee and lead a morally upright life deprived of violence and