Reservoir Dogs

Today I watched Reservoir Dogs, a movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The movie, about a heist gone wrong, is told out of chronological order, a common Tarantino trait.  It includes a host of actors including Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen.  

The members of the robbery team, put together by organized crime boss Joe Cabot, goes only by Mr. and a color given to them by Joe.

The movie starts out with the group eating breakfast and Mr. Pink goes off about how he doesn't believe in tipping because he is expected to.  The scene is typical in a Tarantino film as he always includes real conversation.  

Tarantino uses the radio station featuring 'Super Sounds of the 70's' as the background music for the movie.  The characters listen to the station throughout the film.  A particularly intriguing scene involves Madsen, Mr. Blonde, torturing a police officer while dancing to Stealer's Wheel song 'Stuck in the Middle With You.'  The contrast between the upbeat song and the cruel scene showed Mr. Blondes inner evil and insanity.  Blonde was responsible for the botched job, as he began killing innocent civilians during the robbery.

However, it is revealed by Mr. Pink, Buscemi, that the cops seems to be ready for them upon their departure from the jewelry store.

Eventually, Mr. Orange, Roth, is shown to be a cop who had been undercover.  Mr. Orange had been wounded in fire fight with police that resulted after their departure form the store.  The group had been scattered and met up at an abandoned warehouse that had been agreed upon beforehand.  Most of the movie takes place here and the other parts are told like flashbacks. The movie is intense, gory and brutal.  You see criminals at their worst, such as Mr. Pink pulling a woman out of her car by her hair, or Mr. Blonde torturing people.  However, we also see Mr. White show great compassion towards Mr. Orange on his deathbed.  He genuinely cared about Mr. Orange as he felt responsible for Mr. Orange's wounds.  He wants to risk his own health and freedom to take Orange to the hospital but is talked out of it by Mr. Pink.

The only member whose whereabouts are unknown is Mr. Pink.  He repeatedly says that he is "a professional" and if he made it out that is what saved him.  He operated as it was a job and didn't let things get personal.  It can be assumed that he was arrested as police sirens closed in as he was the only one left in the end.  However, it is believed by many that his character, Buddy Holly waiting tables, in Pulp Fiction is Mr. Pink hiding out.