Pulp Fiction is a controversial film, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, in 1994. It has almost everything you could want in a film; drama, hilarity, intensity, action, thrills, fun, intelligence, romance, intimacy, exaggerated bravado, vulgarity, sweetness, humor and soul searching. The film is very gritty and brutal, but has a unique sense of style that keeps viewers entertained. It will gradually build until it reaches an incredibly intense scene, before descending to a relatively calm scene, only to build up again a few scenes later. This continues throughout the film, dragging the viewer from one scenario to the next. In Pulp Fiction we see how Vincent (John Travolta) and the drug dealer are bringing Mia (Uma Thurman) back to life after she overdosed. . In a medium shot the dealer explains to Vincent what to do. As the croupier counts to three, the camera zooms in to even closer close-ups of Vincent and Mia's faces, of the needle from which the adrenaline flows, and of the faces of the croupier and his pierced girlfriend. This effect is used to show how nervous the croupier is, how much his pierced girlfriend enjoys this show and how scared Vincent is. The viewer is able to identify with all these emotions. According to feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey, one of the most important pleasures of classic fiction is identification. This occurs when the viewer narcissistically identifies with an idealized figure on the screen, typically a male hero whose actions determine the narrative, in a process that recapitulates the discovery of the image of oneself in the mirror phase. For the scene just discussed, the idealized figure is Vincent, with whom viewers personally identify. Then, to further increase the tension of this extraordinary scene, the camera zooms in on the point where the needle must press, while there is no noise at all. As Vincent pushes the needle down, the camera shows a close-up of Mia's eyes opening, while the diegetic sound of the needle being stuck in her heart makes us believe we've seen the crucial moment. The graphic violence of the way the needle is pushed into his heart is once again elliptical. In a medium shot we see Mia screaming. However, Quentin Tarantino's films show a lot of violence. In Pulp Fiction, for example, there is a homosexual rape, hitmen who kill their victims and a man who accidentally gets his head shot off in a car.