Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction: A Movie Based On Nihilism — tarantino.info

Pulp Fiction, an all-time cult classic, contains in itself a lot of metaphysical truths. Dig deeper into the movie than ever before with this guest article by Julien Josset, founder of La-Philosophie.com: Nihilism is derived from the latin word Nihil, which means nothing. Nihilism itself refers to the philosophy which asserts the fact that life itself is particularly useless and holds no particular meaning in it whatsoever. When Nietzsche in his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Antichrist claimed about the death of God, he referred to the society that has drifted away from its Judeo-Christian essence. God is dead and there is no substitute of a godless world. Its absence left a deep scar in the existence of man itself beckoning people to reason and logic as the scientific revolution begin to find its loftiness in our world. With the absence of religion, lives, in particular, seem to have no utter value and that there is no set of criteria which is bound to make us any less good or worse.

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