re: What does the $5 milkshake scene mean to you?

I've always viewed Jackrabbit Slims being about nostalgia. Tarantino traffics in nostalgia, and while this was just his second movie, it is a conscious throwback to the hard-boiled crime films of the 1970s. And one of the biggest things in the 1970s was nostalgia for the 1950s (think Happy Days and American Graffiti).

However, you can't ever go home again, and while this looks like the 50s, or the 70s ideal of the 50s, you're still in the 90s paying for a $5 milkshake. Nostalgia is a powerful intoxicant, but it is ultimately an inauthentic experience, even if the milkshake tastes pretty fricking good.

Tarantino, at this point in his career, was also obsessed with pointing out the arbitrary nature of morals and ethics. Reservoir Dogs is all about professional ethics, even if they are all criminals. Here, Tarantino shows us that Travolta has an ethical code in which he will drop hundreds of dollars on heroin, but is outraged by a $5 milkshake. Our codes are important to us, and make us who we are, but they are also arbitrary.

It was an indication that he was definitely going to sleep with uma despite the high personal risk. He mentioned that he was reluctant to buy the milkshake due to the high cost, but he tried the milkshake. He was in route to sleeping with uma before she od'd.

It was also pretty significant they drank out of the same straw in lew of the discussion about the intimacy of foot massages and sharing potentially inappropriate intimacy.

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It was also pretty significant they drank out of the same straw in lew of the discussion about the intimacy of foot massages and sharing potentially inappropriate intimacy.

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Vinvent was going to get Tony RockyHorrored.

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In fact the rescue from the od was probably the only thing that was going to save his life.

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I like the imagery of him saving his own life by saving her life. Then loses his own life, later in the film, due to his own carelessness combined with intentional mistreatment of another person.

I don't want the thread to spread too wildly, but keeping the focus on Vincent, is there any question that Butch likely wouldn't have killed him if he hadn't been such a dick to him earlier?

these are great. and all this time i didnt pay a second look to that scene

now im curious on your interpretation of the gimp scene