Black hero

Rating: 7/10 (13 February 2013)

First of all I wish to say that if the shooting of the horse at the beginning is real and not simulated or feigned this would mean cruelty against animals which is a crime and you must forget what I am going to comment below because then the movie should be utterly condemned. When Quentin Tarantino was interviewed after he made this movie the interviewer asked him if he didn't think that his movies had too much violence. Tarantino replied, rather irritated, that society is much more violent. And he was utterly right of course. This movie has violence galore and lots of blood. But this violence is totally acceptable as real in the context of the story and you must not forget that slavery was in itself and in its daily events a constant huge violence. This is the story of a man who makes a living by being a bounty hunter (he killed bandits hunted up and down by justice to get the reward offered to whom delivered them dead or alive) who at a certain point takes as his assistant a slave called Django (Jamie Foxx who does a fine job at this part) freeing him after he helped him to find three of those bandits. After that the body hunter who was in fact a fine cultivated gentleman with some humane feelings (though trigger happy) decides to help Django to find his wife, another slave from whom he was forcibly separated in a slave auction. This leads them to a series of thrilling adventures very well shown in images, scenes, sequences and dialogues, showing a cast of very well depicted and presented characters with great performers. The sceneries, both interior and exterior, are excellent. Of course in this kind of movies there are also a few actual unlikelihoods (for instance the facility with which the shooter hits fully and precisely very distant targets which anyone who has for instance done military duties knows it is very difficult if not impossible and the facility with which the "goody" hero kills a crowd of villains supposedly as good shooters as himself and without even being hit himself). But in its whole it is a good movie indeed in terms of action, sceneries, cut, actors' direction and performing and screen-play carrying out with extremely dramatic scenes.