While I admit I haven't seen this in many years, it was extremely popular when I was a teenager, so I saw it in my most formidable years. I'm generally not a Tarantino film fan, but I don't hate them either. People say he's a film genius, but he's really just a pop icon. His work is very narrow to Hollywood views and doesn't have any larger meaning. You can tell this is true because none of the ubiquitous 10 star reviews are more than a paragraph and all say about the same thing. They say this is the greatest film of all time but none really say why in any great detail. And that's because, while unique and visually appealing, this film speaks to a specific aspect of culture, and that's all.

In particular, it speaks to a more primitive and cruel part of humanity that wants a green light to be callous and cruel, and to not feel bad about it. His main characters are always overly masculine types that don't have any moral qualms with violence as a solution to problems. Like other reviewers, I've always found it troubling how most people do not notice the undertones of meanings slipped into his films that are deeply misogynistic. They largely appeal to a younger and male audience that is culturally programmed to place visual hedonism over philosophical and intellectual meaning. Overall, I find it to be "pretty" in a morbid way but superficial. My biggest complaint is that the women in his films are always black and white, while the men (especially main characters) have complicated motivations..