What happened to the girl in Pulp Fiction exactly? Did the guy do the right thing medically or was it all movie drama? I’m talking about the overdose, and to save her he had to stab her with a big needle to reach the heart. Mia Wallace confused Vince Vega’s very pure and particularly potent heroin for cocaine and suffered a near fatal heroin overdose. And everything Vince Vega did to go about “saving” her was wrong.
The whole story in the film is actually a black comedy, and it’s meant to be silly, weird, tense and over-the-top. All of which it succeeds at immensely. (An object lesson in not just randomly snorting whatever drugs you happen to find lying around.) The comedy of errors starts when Wallace, a cocaine user, is being escorted for a night on the town by Vega, a criminal associate of her gangster husband Marcellus Wallace. Unknown to her, Vega is a heroin addict and has just purchased a large quantity of particularly powerful heroin… read more >
