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What this experience lets Jules do is question the value system that has structured his life, and the process of re-evaluating the importance of values is a very Nietzschean reaction. But, critically, Jules does not do this by lapsing into a religious metaphysics—he doesn’t claim that meaning is provided by an infinitely important heavenly realm.

“While he [Nietzsche] might think that Vincent’s nihilistic view of life is as bad as a dogmatic or religious one, he also claims that there is a way of going through life that is better than either of them: we can refuse to take any moral system (religious or nihilist) for granted and become the creators of meaning ourselves”