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Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction screams multiple genres satire, black comedy, and action. However the picture ultimately boils down to a crime film. As crime is a broad genre I think that it is appropriate because all of the other occurring themes. Richard Maltby articulates that “Generic boundaries can never be rigidly defined, and all generic groupings are susceptible to extensive subdivision” which everyone can agree with. But the movie opens with crime, the overall theme is crime and ultimately ends with crime. Pulp Fiction features themes like drugs, alcohol, romance and some philosophy but the intertwining stories all come together over one incident involving Marcellus Wallace. There are several conventions of technique which are classically

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