Once again, Quentin Tarantino outdoes himself. The movie True Romance was excellent. It presented real issues that some people are forced to face in their lives. The title of the film is misleading. You would have thought it would be a love story. Actually, it is, but unlike any love story I've ever seen. It's filled with violence, action, blood, guts 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 his usual way of describing them. In Tarantino's films, violence is presented in a completely different approach than in films like Rambo or Die Hard. Even though the number of people dying is the same, Tarantino seems to have this perverse and horrible way of presenting the situation to his audience. He always takes violence to the extreme. In the scene with the pimp, he doesn't just shoot the pimp in the back or chest. He's just going for the enthusiasm...his balls! Another example is the death of Dennis Hopper. We all knew what happened to him, but Tarantino makes sure to show us the oozing gunshot wound in his head. Some think this goes too far in violence; however, acts of this nature occur daily in the real world. I guess it's his way of giving us a "reality check". This kind of shit happens to people. We're so sheltered in our comfortable little worlds that we don't even realize this stuff is happening. Variety. Isn’t that supposed to be the “spice of life?” » Well, Tarantino gets so spicy it can make you sweat. What is it about violence that attracts the general public so much? There are so many people who would rather watch a violent movie than a movie filled with romance or adventure. If you were to compare box office revenue, I'm pretty sure that movies filled with blood and guts make a lot more than other movies. Naturally, if a person in the film industry knows that it will earn them mega dollars, they will continue to make films like this to earn more money. Tarantino tends to slip a little racism into his films. Obviously this isn't the main topic, but it's obvious. Hopper was unique when he told the Sicilian that his great-great-great-great-grandmother slept with a nigger and that's why he had dark skin and brown eyes..