Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Ghoulish Delight]

Tarrantino's style is all about the artifice of film making. He had no interest in suspending disbelief, he always wants you to be aware that you're watching a movie, being told a story. That's why, I believe, he uses so many idioms from the early days of film, when they were still toying with the medium, hadn't mastered the suspension of disbelief, and were still just putting plays and telling stories on screen. It either works for you or it doesn't I suppose. I enjoy it because it lets you in on his thought process. By making his style and directorial/editorial choices front and center you get a lot of information from the film about exactly the tone and message he's trying to send.