Once again Quentin Tarantino surpasses himself. The movie True Romance was excellent. It presented real problems that some people are forced to face in their lives. The title of the film is misleading. You would think this would be a love story. It actually is, but unlike any love story I've ever seen. It is full of violence, action, blood, courage and gore. Like most of Tarantino's other films, it revolves around violence that we rarely see or experience in our lives. It also incorporates drugs and racism, hate and love and its usual banal way of representing them. In Tarantino's films, violence is presented with a completely different approach than in films like Rambo or Die Hard. Even though there are the same amount of people dying, Tarantino seems to have this perverse and gruesome way of presenting it to his audience. He always takes violence to the extreme. In the scene with the pimp he doesn't just shoot him in the back or the chest. He goes straight for the taste... his balls! Another example of this is when Dennis Hopper was killed. We all knew what happened to him, but Tarantino makes sure to show us the bullet wound dripping into his head. Some people think this is taking the violence too far; however, acts of this nature happen every day in the real world. I guess this is his way of giving us a "reality check". Shit like that happens to people. We are so protected in our comfortable little worlds that we don't even realize these things happen. Variety. Isn't that supposed to be the "spice of life?" Well, Tarantino gets so damn hot that it can make you sweat like a bullet. What makes violence so appealing to the general public? There are so many people who would rather see a violent movie than a movie full of romance or adventure. If I were to compare revenues from box office earnings, I'm pretty sure that films full of blood and guts earn much more than other films. Of course, if a person in the film industry knows that this will make him a lot of money, he will continue to make films like this to earn more money. Tarantino tends to put some racism in his films. It's pretty obvious that it's not the main topic, but it's noticeable. Hopper was unique when he told the Sicilian boy that his great, great, great, great grandmother had slept with a black man and that was why she had dark skin and brown eyes.