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Pulp Fiction Flaw

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"Pulp Fiction" is my favourite movie of all time.  It's a multi-layered gem of a flick with great dialogue, a fantastic editing style and one memorable scene after another.

One of my favourite scenes is when Jules and Vincent pay a visit to Marvin, Roger and Brett.  Jules and Vincent are unaware there's a fourth guy in the apartment until he jumps out of the bathroom emptying his gun in Jules and Vincent's direction.  The bullets miss them, leading later to Jules' moment of clarity when he claims he "felt God's touch, God got involved".  It's an almost perfect scene.  Almost...

The bullets are actually in the wall before that fourth guy shoots.  Here's a screen cap to prove it.  It's a sloppy director's error but it's a significant one.  The soul of this movie, in my humble opinion, is Jules feeling God's touch.  If the bullet holes Jules sees behind him are not from the shooter, Jules doesn't decide to quit and walk the earth and Honey Bunny and Yolanda are goners.

I choose to believe that God got involved.

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