John's Blog

Much like a car crash that you don't want to look at, but some how wind up catching a glimpse of anyway I happened to find myself watching the sanitized TV edit of Pulp Fiction on Bravo last night. My sense of curiosity got the best of me and I tried to watch to see how they cleaned up the violence and the language. It looks like the censors didn't have much of a problem with the violence and concentrated most of their efforts on the language. Why should that surprise me?

In our culture we've become so desensitized to violence that this films' depiction of some pretty darned violent stuff isn't a big deal. But words, well there's something that we need to be protected from. (And God forbid we'd see a nipple or something!) Seems like backwards priorities to me, but what do I know. At first, the "sanitized for your protection" version proved funny, but quickly grew irritating. It was shortly after hearing Jules ask "English, little sucker, do you speak it?" that I couldn't take it anymore and had to punch out.