An excellent introduction into Quentin tarentino

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2013)

This is my first Quentin film, and it is one of the most amazing and exhilarating experiences of my life. It is almost perfect in it's old fashioned execution and spaghetti western style filming. I realize that this film is being heavily criticized for it's extreme violence and heavy use of the "N" word. Firstly, the great thing about this movie is that the violence is being directed at the right people for the most part, the people who in fact deserve their gory fate. Slavery was a terrible chapter in America's history, and two movies this year have brilliantly condemned it, albeit in two entirely different ways, Lincoln being the other film. Here Django, the film's heroin, takes justice into his own hands and shows the world how slave owners really were in those days. and also how to deal with them not in the most legal way, but arguably in the most effective and unarguable th most entertaining way possible. In this film, no evil doer gets off Scot free. All of them meet their very satisfying end under tarentino's watch. That is why you must forgive this film for all of it's bloodshed, because the blood is shed from the people who undoubtedly deserve it. And as for the N word, honestly it's 1860, people said the N word quite a bit in those times people!! Historical fiction is always criticized for the inaccuracy of some old custom or other (i.e. gladiator, Spartacus...anything about Rome). Well here ya go!
I suppose I now should talk about the exquisite performances in this film. First off, Jaime Fox is actually quite good as Django, it's just that his character suffers from the fact that he is quite two dimensional, and he really only has one true goal: to get his wife back while killing as many white people as he can along the way. We now move over the man of the hour, Christoph Waltz. This is the first movie I have seen him in, and he blew me away with his wonderful comedic timing, the ruthlessness combined with the sympathy for django, and his underwhelming charm that kept the movie going. The best scenes in the movie contained him, (minus the final scene, which was just wonderfully executed.) in his deserved Oscar winning performance. Leo DiCaprio is also superb as the sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie, and was very unlucky y not to get an Oscar nom. His flair and love for life being one of the most evil men in cinema history just added to the experience, and also showed quite clearly how terrible the world was back then. Samuel L. Jackson steals every scene he's in as Calvin's head slave and partner in crime Stephen. He represents what Django must fight against and destroy: a world where slavery has become such an everyday enterprise that blacks suck up to the whites and turn against their own people instead of fighting against the injustice. He's someone you absolutely love to hate, but your glad that he dies in the final scene so that you get to enjoy every minute with him. I could go on and on but i'll just say this to you now: if you like movies that really make you feel good at the end, see this! You could not ask for a better end to such wonderfully evil people.