Rosenbaum finds much less in Jules's revelation:"he spiritual awakening
at the end of Pulp Fiction, which Jackson performs beautifully, is a piece of jive avowedly inspired by kung-fu movies.
In the fall of 1920,
as observed by freshman student Alice Rosenbaum, enrollment was open and the majority of the students were anti-communist including,
until removed, a few vocal opponents of the regime.
Responding to comparisons between Tarantino's film and the work of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, especially his first, most famous feature,
Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader wrote,"The fact that Pulp Fiction is garnering more extravagant raves
than Breathless ever did tells you plenty about which kind of cultural references are regarded as more fruitful- namely, the ones we already have and don't wish to expand.