In Quentin Tarantino's debut film, Reservoir dogs, is about a group of criminals that have been brought together to retrieve diamonds and rob a local bank, are pitted against each other throughout the film trying to figure out who the undercover cop is within their group. The movie starts out with a man screaming in the back of a car and blood all over as he had been shot. The audience is immediately brought into the climax of the film and must figure out what went wrong. As they retrieve to their hideout spot, tempers flare as they begin to investigate who rated them out.
The film chose not to show the heist. but instead decided to show how the characters paranoia and mentality cause them to lose composure on themselves and become enemies. Half the movie shows them arguing in the safe house. The only thing we do see of the heist is the criminals running away and shooting at the cops, and while Mr. White, who is played by Harvey Keitel and Mr. Orange who is played by Tim Roth, try to hijack a car, Mr. Orange is shot and thus we find out what happened to the man we met in the beginning.
Tarantino also delivers stories within the film. For each of the main characters, such as Mr. White, Orange, and Pink, there is a back story of how they came to be in the group for the heist. We find out during this flashback stories who the undercover cop is, and how he became involved in that group. Tarantino gives us a very unorthodox type of movie, one where when I first saw it, I was confused to why the heist is never shown. But that's the point of the whole movie. He made it this way on purpose to show how paranoid a criminal can get when things don't go the way they planned.
Works cited
1. Understanding movies
2. IMDB
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