Crime · Thriller
American
1992 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 99 min
Six strangers, known to each other only by colour-coded aliases, are hired for a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong. The survivors regroup in a warehouse, wounded and suspicious, trying to work out who sold them out. A talky, tense crime story told out of sequence.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 1990s independent cinema and the start of a postmodern strain of crime movie that treats genre conventions as material to remix, not rules to obey.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a play about trust: how people size each other up through talk, status and the stories they tell.
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