Quentin Tarantino: “Just Blood in Your Eyes”

The personality of American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and the cultural influences he has absorbed are presented as an introduction to a study of his first film, Reservoir Dogs. The closed-in, introspective setting of this film is suggestive of the analytic setting, inasmuch as the discourse incessantly returns to a single event, and in that an ego with sufficient strength can bear the violence of the transformation underway. In Tarantino’s second film, Pulp Fiction, in a moment of pure violence, an unexpected manifestation of the divine triggers a moment of awareness in one of the characters – a thief – opening him to a certain recognition of the other and an initial intuition of meaning.