Watch: Get Close With Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' In This Supercut

Even twenty-one years later, it’s a challenge to write about Quentin Tarantino’s epochal “Pulp Fiction” without feeling like you’re treading well-charted ground. Tarantino’s scorching second film is one of the most popular, influential and most-mimicked films of all time, spawning a litany of copycat flicks about talky, philosophical criminals and bringing phrases like “royale with cheese” and countless other catchphrases into the pop culture vernacular. Everyone who loves movies generally has something to say about “Pulp Fiction” and so too, apparently, does Mr. Mark Fraser: he’s comprised a supercut of all of Pulp Fiction’s intense close-ups, although he limits his focus here to images and objects within Tarantino’s world – not the actors.

Taken on its own modest terms, the video is a neat little micro-distillation of the film that some folks call Tarantino’s masterpiece. Although the film’s rich, almost musical dialogue is arguably its chief pleasure, its images are pungent and...