Absolute Smut

Rating: 1/10 (20 April 2013)

This is just an awful, awful film.
There is no use of comedic relief/interpretation that is appropriate regarding the brutality that was American slavery in the Southern States. People were savagely tortured, hung, burned alive, etc. Do the Germans make funny films about the Holocaust? Have we really become so stupid/insensitive to human rights in American society that we don't understand how horrible these periods/acts were/are in real life? I also agree with many who have written reviews on here about the egregious racism (white and black) in this movie. I understand it is Tarantino and it is supposed to be over the top; but it really just seemed like a lot of unbridled race-bating (either way, black and white) to me. None of it was funny or entertaining. Why would you want to depict a person being eaten alive by dogs or (almost) being castrated by a hot poker? Would it be entertaining/funny if someone did those things to you? It is very disturbing to me that this film is so critically acclaimed: I think it is a reflection of how out of control our society is right now.
This movie so deeply disturbed me that I went through the trouble to create an IMDb account specifically to come on here and rate it as a 1. I think there are still some decent people in America, and it's about time we start standing up and protesting against mindless smut like this.