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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

The Homosexual Subtext of Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” (1992)

05/11/2019

Reservoir Dogs is one of many films, past and present, that either flirt with or fully incorporate homosexual innuendo, expand­ing the vast symbolic field that homosexual­ity embraces. Its subtextual strategy mirrors the longstanding suppression and willful concealment of homoerotic desire in our society.

Reservoir Dogs: Redemption in a Postmodern World

29/12/2017

Tarantino is widely recognized as a quintessentially postmodern neo-noir filmmaker. His films are postmodern in the artistic sense, insofar as they are, for example, blends of genres and highly allusive. But they’re also postmodern in terms of the underlying epistemology and the position on morality and values that they take.

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