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It's Clarence Worley's (Christian Slater) birthday and, since he's got no one to celebrate with, the highlight is a triple-bill of kung-fu movies, when a good-looking girl makes her way down the cinema aisle, towards him. Moving behind Clarence, Alabama (Patricia Arquette) accidentally-on-purpose dumps her popcorn all over him. With the ice broken, the normally painfully shy Clarence winds up taking Alabama back to the comic-book store where he works. Maybe he likes her?
Since the attraction is mutual and they have so much in common, Clarence and Alabama figure that it'd be cool to become man and wife. The mere fact that Alabama is a novice hooker, hired by his boss as a birthday treat, is of no consequence. More pressing is the little matter of Alabama's pimp, dangerous 'I wanna be black' Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman), and his refusal to let Alabama go free. Spurred by his imaginary mentor, the ghost of Elvis (Val Kilmer), Clarence takes a trip over to Drexl's place. There can only be one conclusion, violence, and a lot of it.
Fortunately Clarence manages to escape relatively unharmed, leaving behind him a couple of fresh corpses and carrying the added bonus of a suitcase of Alabama's things. However, the case contains none of her things, instead it's stuffed full of uncut cocaine. Confronted with this level of temptation and worry, all the Worley's can do is head out of town fast. A quick visit to Clarence's dad Clifford (Dennis Hopper) confirms that the cops aren't onto them, thus LA is their next stop. Clarence has an old friend out there, miserable actor Dick Ritchie (Michael Rapaport), and it's the best place to offload a bag full of stolen coke. It's a shame that the owners want it back.
Drawn from the often brilliant mind of Quentin Tarantino, True Romance carries the usual extreme violence and sharp, quotable, angry dialogue. Clarence is a true comic-book geek who just happens to get lucky with a call-girl who has a heart of gold. The action, from the instant of their meeting, is fast paced and often frenetic, it's a blur of bullets, edgy meetings and brutal violence.
Clarence and Alabama have some depth to their personalities, but not much (since background and motivation don't feature highly in this movie). If the statements of never-ending love seem rushed that's because everything in True Romance is moving at speed. The key is to accept events without question, it's just that sort of film.
Performances in the film are commendable Slater and Arquette are good in the lead roles, with a very strong supporting cast that includes cameos from Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer and Samuel L Jackson, to name but a few, so you have a magnificent cast which makes the film well acted.
Where True Romance is both great and mediocre is in the script. The lines are both intuitive and unusual, but at the expense of becoming relentlessly quirky. Every scene is constructed to illustrate Tarantino's mindset, which makes True Romance feel more like a endless line of show-pieces rather than a smoothly flowing, continuous narrative.
Watching True Romance with the brain in neutral provides a great deal of visual pleasure, trying to figure out why things have happened, is where you can lose yourself.
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