Friday, March 15, 2013

Django Unchained - Film review


I was invited for the latest and highest profile installment, Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" movie premier. A part-blaxploitation film, part-spagetti Western and all-Tarantino, the movie comes charging its audience with blazing guns and probably the most fun slavery revenge-fantasy show you'll ever watch.

Tarantino's take on slavery is wildly creative, funny and frightening outrageously entertaining and yet remarkably very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism back then. A true classic slavery's singular horros. Setting, costumes and the music, I was amused, generally i feel that all fall squarely in the contemporary  Fitting in scenes like "Mandingo fights" transformed the movie in between fictional and non-fictional.  Django Unchained highlights the fact that in pre-civil war America many atrocities were committed against black slaves by white owners, and especially those with great power and wealth. "Django" presented a variety of black slaves were exploited for white entertainment.

Tarantino's trademark, burst of extreme violence, is on full display in the movie, Django Unchained. Images that you see that will frightened you for example a veritable latticework of whip scars. If you are afraid of gory this might not be the movie for you. Even so the movie was filled with bombing scenes and gnarled bodies, Tarantino excel in raucous humor that goes along the way in the movie.

This story tells a travelling dentist, Dr. King Schultz , played by Christoph Waltz, discovered that bounty hunting is profitable rather than polishing and scaling all day. He freed Django ( Jamie Foxx) , a black slave who has knowledge of delinquents that he is after. Schultz then take Django under his wing and hit off from the get go. The movie tells the journey of Django rescuing his wife, Broomhilda von Shaft ( Kerry Washington) . Just like a story told by Dr. Schultz in the movie, he'd walk through hellfire for her, just because she's worth it.


Schultz helps to track Broomhilda's whereabouts and ended up in this notorious plantation Candyland , presided over by Calvin Candie (Leornardo DiCarprio), he who pits his slaves against each in death matches for his own amusement, a hideous human being.  Long winded at times, aside from a small handful of flashbacks for dramatic effect, Tarantino sure did shuffled plots he favors.
Shultz, a man who has seen some serious shit in his travels with Django, witnessed Django's  progression in becoming a great sharp shooter and amazingly increased killer instinct in him. Though Schultz finds slavery a confusing ugly endeavour, he tells his partner Django , they're going to have to get dirty to pull of their elaborate ruse where they planned to purchase fighter slaves from Calvin Candie.  It all leads to one of the gruesome and bloody climaxes in the movie when Candie's staunchly loyal senior house slave, Stephen ( Samuel L. Jackson) raises suspicions that sale of Mandingo fighter is a ruse with Calvin Candie in private and correctly deduces his suspicion that Django and Broomhilda know each other.

Tarantino succeeded in making a fun, violent and badass  spagetti western. The result is not for faint of heart but his whip smart dialogues and pop culture saturated sensibilities as well as making everyone involvind in the movie has a certain blasting role to play, hence that leaves an absolute over the top feeling to the audience.



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