I am not a big fan Quentin Tarantino. I think he is overrated. Yes, Pulp Fiction was top-of-the-bill, but violence bores me. Blood splashing everywhere makes me sleepy. Bullets penetrating bodies in slow-motion, who cares. It is too simple. You know that is coming; close your eyes and wait for the next snappy dialogue. I fast-forward car chases, the shoot-outs, explosions and so.
But not to shove the movie totally in the gutter, I thought the actors were great. Fox, Landa, DiCaprio and Jackson were exquisite; a joy to watch the brilliance of each those actors. The rotten teeth on DiCaprio was a sensational move. I secretly hope DiCaprio came with the idea himself.
The safest thing one could say about “Django Unchained” is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again by juxtaposing the horrors of slavery with an absurdist, horse-opera buffa plot that quotes from all sorts of movies, including his own, with special emphasis on spaghetti westerns. […} Yet this seriously crazed comedy is also a crazily serious disquisition on enslavement, and how it has been portrayed over the years and decades by slaves to Hollywood. (Joe Morgenstein WSJ)
Django like Unglorious Bastards like Kill Bill just masturbates from blood to more blood. Slavery or Nazi Germany are just foto-opps for the violence. An emotionless parade of supposedly highly-charged themes with no real food for discussions. It is all too absurdly cartoonesque.
DiCaprio at the dinner table starts the discussions of White Supremacy by referring to cranial research showing white man superiority against the backdrop of a white population of total morons. That’s funny, but in the Cinema nobody laughed. DiCaprio’s character build his case for White Supremacy by framing the black man (although he uses the nigger word) as submissively accepting slavery. Yet the whole movie we see whipped slaves walking for punished for insubordination. But is Django really the train-of-thoughts that inspires us to really think about the dynamics of slavery. Not really, before you can think your next word, the screen splashes blood like a gang-bang porn movie where 40 guys shoot their cum at the same time. By the way, the Civil War was won because more than 200.00 slaves crossed over to fight for the Union tipping the balance decisively in favor of the North. Hence, the birth of the USA. what do you mean submissive?
Just as Nazi Germany, slavery is a telling period in history because it shows the perverted nature of mankind; not necessarily white mankind. I believe the relevance of slavery or Nazi Germany is not the human horrors and the individual heroism or sadism that is depicted in many movies, but the collective belief that one group (race) feels superior to another. The Jew as the Untenmensch or the African as a naked, wild beast are memes engraved in our collective memory, whether we want it or not. Psychology shows the pervasiveness of these images in our unconsciousness decision-making, pervertedly not only in the white man.
How absurd to see Europeans (the Western World) claiming moral superiority of a higher civilization with Slavery, Apartheid and Nazi Germany as living proof of immoral Beastness. Just as any other people in history those civilized man used terror as a tactical (strategic) weapon to dominate their conquered enemies. Whipping slaves, raping women, separating families is a tactic used by the old Kentucky plantation holders just as Assad is doing now in Syria or Koni in Oeganda. Racist ideology was (is?) a great tactical weapon to unite poor whites behind the white elite who looked down on them almost as much as they did on the African. But in the racist theories the white ‘moron’ class could at least pretend that they were more than they actually were (cheap labor for the elite and expendable soldiers for the kill). It was a immoral, but smart move and it still is an immoral, smart move: racism as a cheap recruiting tool for poor people to side with the elite against other poor people.
It is comic to see how White Trash tries to keep the pretense of superior white race, while being despised and ridiculed by other White Man. Still, we need to wait for other movies who have the guts to penetrate these sensitive issues and show us the deeper insight that there was Method-To-The-Madness. Terror and racism are tactical weapons of mass destruction to break the mind of the people. It is inhuman, but effective. It works until the hate gives in; no society can expand based on terror, hate and exclusion. Lincoln saw that; Mandela and Martin Luther King understood that. Assadistas, Talibanistas, Iransistas, BinLadenistas and their spiteful followers do not; they have no future just like the Plantation Holders or their Afikaner Counterparts; they will end up to be gutted in gutter.
The question for the day: Will Tula the Movie dive deeper into the murky psychology of slavery or will it try to score on the superficial sentimentalism of the bad white bosses and their sadistic soldiers and the poor, tortured black masses? The latter we have already seen in a better version by Steven Spielberg.
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