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Originally Posted by Severian

Funny, I had the same experience. Part of it, I'm sure, was that I'd heard so much about it, and being pretty young at the time, I was still a bit apprehensive about movies that were branded overly graphic. But I actually watched it in the theater with my mother, who just loathes excessive violence in movies, and we had a blast. She too was laughing her ass off.

Not all the way through of course. Rape and kidnapping are never funny. Don't mean to imply I was having a chuckle when Marsellus Wallace was gagging on a rubber ball. But... most of the film is objectively hilarious.

yeah.

there was this structuralist literary theorist, tzvetan todorov, who argued that every work of art contained a statement of its own poetics. it actually works quite often if you look carefully. a little manifesto or aesthetic proclamation jammed somewhere in the text.

so... "ketchup..." was the big epiphany for me. couldn't stop laughing afterwards.