Movie Review: Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (Sophie)

I like the way you die boy

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Django Unchained is another one of those Quentin Tarantino master pieces and some even say the best he did since Pulp Fiction in 1994. Released in late 2012 it grossed an estimated $162.8 million at the US box office alone! It stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and even Samuel L Jackson, who is in my opinion unrecognisable in this movie in character and mask.

The movie is set in early America just before the Civil war and can be divided into two sections. The first part a mock western and the second a trail of revenge, probably because Tarantino loooves revenge.

The story line starts with German-born bounty hunter Dr King Schultz, posing as a dentist, freeing (or more or less stealing Django) from slavery, as he is n need of his help find the runaway gangster by the name of the ‘Brittle Brothers’. So the two go off and do the Western thing, hunt the bad guys and collect the bounty. Django, however has only one thing in mind, finding his long lost love Brunhilde, who is lost in the slave trade. This quest to find Brunhilde and take revenge on those keeping her in slavery takes part in the second half of the movie.

My favourite scene of the movie is the one where the African-American housekeeper Stephen, played by Samuel L Jackson, questions the validity of Django, played by Jamie Foxx, to be riding on a horse. I have not yet count how often the N-word and some deem the frequent use of it in the movie to be controversial, but after 180 minutes running you do get used to it.

The movie not only ends with, but has throughout, this violent absurdity of people dying in the extravagant, obscene, over the top, profound ways, which bring you to the point where you either switch off or laugh it off. After Inglorious Basterds, this makes me believe that this is, where Tarantino like to push the audience right to the edge of what’s funny – what’s artistic and what’s not. This is where he seems to be most comfortable in his film making, meaning gets a very good movie out of it. And that this is in fact what makes a Tarantino movie a great movie – the utter and complete nonsense of it in its entirety. Django unchained is being sadistic and pushes moral boundries and ambitions at the same time.

The cast of this movie, just as in Inglorious Basterds, is define. Christoph Watlz for the second time starring in a Tarantino movie goes on to win an Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for the second. Even Tarantino himself makes a cameo appearance, as an Australian Cowboy. Gold.