Reservoir Dogs, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino- 10 out of 10

 Reservoir Dogs, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

10 out of 10

Without a doubt one of the best motion pictures ever made - https://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made/list/18 - unless of course the viewer is a fundamentalist, evangelist and/or member of the cult that has a multitude of members around the globe, supporting real Reservoir Dogs like BolsaNero, Putin, Xi, North Korean Kim – I mean those who really love the guy, like the fat idiot in the White House – Duterte and the list is alas very long…in which case, these lunatics would be appalled by the violence in the movie, the dirty language – indeed, it seems that after its release, they have counted and found that there are more expletives, perhaps one every fifty seconds or so, in this feature than in any other film…

This masterpiece is an extraordinary combination of humor, action, intelligent dialogue, brilliant filmmaking…the problem being for the under signed that once he has seen this masterwork and the even more acclaimed and maybe a tad more accomplished, classic, landmark Pulp Fiction http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/11/note-on-pulp-fiction-writer-director.html , he has not been elated by the other movies of Quentin Tarantino…if Jackie Brown is formidable - http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/note-on-jackie-brown-directed-and.html - there is less to say in favor of the beautiful , but lacking substance somewhat Kill Bill http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/note-on-kill-bill-written-and-directed.html

Evidently, the fans and most of the critics have been thrilled by all the accomplishments of the rebel genius, and as stated, this is probably an issue of too high expectations – one of the positive psychology recommendations, a solution for increased wellbeing is to lower your expectations – in this case, once one is delighted by Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, the expectation to be blown away, exuberant in equal measure by the other opera is naturally not met, for it is extremely rare to have a film maker produce a chef d’oeuvre, and if he has already made two, then the others could be good, but not otherworldly…

Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/11/once-upon-timein-hollywood-written-and.html has managed to mesmerize audiences and critics, nominated for numerous prizes, winning quite a few, but it was beaten for the top trophy by the sensational, phenomenal Parasite http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/08/parasite-written-by-jin-won-han-and.html - the first foreign film to win the grandiose Academy Award for Best Motion Picture, not just for foreign film, as it did, together with the even more relevant Palme d’Or.

From the opening, Reservoir Dogs is original, creative, vibrant, effervescent, unusual in the theme of the dialogue, where the participants in a robbery are gathered, all with color names to protect their real identity, in case one or more of them get caught by the police, if something goes wrong, they would know almost nothing about their partners in crime, for the mastermind, Joe Cabot aka marvelous and with a stupendous, deep voice Lawrence Tierney, has instructed them to avoid talking about themselves.

Every scene is memorable and quite a few will make it on to the history of cinema – what am I saying, all this treasure film will be in the most cherished category, unless the fact that personages use demeaning, racist language – which they naturally do, for they are Reservoir dogs, mean, vicious killers with no scruples at all and this is just one of their many despicable flaws and villainous character traits, no matter if Mr. White say shows some humanity and pity for a fellow gangster, when this one, Mr. Orange aka Freddy aka superb Tim Roth, is shot down and about to die  - would eliminate this landmark from the archives, just as Little Britain http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/little-britain-by-matt-lucas-and-david.html =and Gone With the Wind have disappeared from the list of available material on some sites…HBO looked at the racist portrayal in the latter and took it out from its list http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/05/gone-with-wind-based-on-pulitzer-prize.html

Because there is an undercover cop among them – Mr. Orange, whose real name is Freddy – the attempted robbery of the diamond outfit, which was receiving some cut stones from abroad just as the Reservoir Dogs were planning this, all hell breaks loose, Mr. Blonde aka Vic Vega aka excellent, cool if psychotic Michael Madsen starts shooting – explaining later that they did not listen when they said do not use the alarm and since he does not like alarms, he had to start killing them…he is clearly a psychopath – there is an interesting definition given by Professor Tal Ben-Shahar, who says that this is the individual who feels nothing, no emotion and is thus able to speculate the feelings of the others…he also mentions that it is good when we feel even negative emotions, because the only ones who feel nothing are the psychopaths and dead people.

To get out of the confrontation with the police, which appeared immediately, or was waiting – a fact that Mr. White aka outstanding Harvey Keitel, the one who has been instrumental in the making of the movie, helping Tarantino and convincing him to wait to be able to make it in color as opposed to black and white, and Mr. Pink aka glorious Steve Buscemi debate over the failure of the robbery and come to the conclusion that there has been a rat, though they eventually fight over the name and end up pointing guns at each other, in one of the many – again, all are beyond belief – memorable, classic sense of this magnum opus.

As they threaten each other with a gun, Mr. Blonde intervenes, though with a detached, relaxed attitude, as if he were on a couch, watching a documentary about violence on television – and even then, a normal person would be more concerned – without trying to break the fight, just bemused and then he takes some heat as Mr. White is upset with his mad shooting in the previous hours…’are you going to bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bark’ this is the reply of the calm Mr. Blonde, but this time Mr. Pink stops the upcoming, new clash and then they all three enjoy kicking and hitting the poor officer who has been taken in the trunk of his car by the crazy Vic Vega, who is preparing to kill the poor man…

He is about to do it, using as background music the gorgeous Stuck in the Middle with You- the soundtrack is overwhelming in general – first slashing the ear off – in an interview, Quentin Tarantino speaks about how they have decided on this angle and not the opposite – and then pouring gas on the victim, ready to light it off, after stating that he does not care if the cop has any information to give, for he will kill him anyway, the only thing left for the tortured is to pray for a quick death …which he means to say he will not get…

There is also a video note attached, which you can find here: http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/06/one-of-best-twenty-movies-ever-made.html