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Fantiligy: The Gold Watch: Boxes and Fate in Pulp Fiction

By T. B. Mindser Pulp Fiction arguably contains one of the most fascinating sequences and stories ever committed to celluloid. In this sequence we see a boxer, or Palooka   Butch,not take a dive, due to family pride which causes him to be on the run and later in a showdown with his nemesis, Marsellus Wallace, in a city street and then in pawn shop which becomes the mouth, or orifice of hell. Fascinatingly, the destiny and fate of Butch is intertwined with the watch as this becomes a film about boxes within boxes. Even Butch’s profession sounds like a box: He is a boxer and one that refuses to lie down, whether it be in the ring or in a Gimp trunk. Let’s examine the box in more detail. When we first see the infant Butch, he is watching a “box” a television playing a children’s show about totem poles; symbols of Indigenous pride. He is forced to turn off the box when his mother introduces Captain Koons, a war veteran, close friend and fellow POW combatant of Butch’s d...