Django is off the Chain!! Quentin manages to tread carefully,perfectly on the Sensitive issue/Westerngore line,

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2013)

....though aware that many,most...no directors have walked here and there's nothing to compare with doesn't make Tarantinos film in any way less then all that it is and that is cinematic gold for those not faint of heart. But first,just this...
First,Quentin has taken a lot of heat for handling the subject and depicting this part of American history in a very insensitive way. But why are those comments even uttered,WHY are they unfortunately something that has to go hand-in-hand with this film?
Spike Lee"himself"refuses to even see it. Good for you,Spike,trashing a film you haven't seen,one regarding a shameful American past you once could've given us a vision off. You base this on the material being important and should be handled with respect....well if that is the case and it is important....where Is Your film about slavery in America,Spikey? Bad loser. You wish you had the stones to make a film you're not gonna see based on extreme prejudice on your behalf?
Quentin is getting somewhat punished cause of the lack of vision,balls and gift for dialog the ones who came before him possessed...since we're not talking films and directors that tried and failed big time,we're talking about no directors even touching this subject. In 2012....cause what,we respect the past best by not retelling it or better yet,artistically reshaping it? That he with this film is ahead of his time,Now,is bizarre and sad.
So the film. Django Unchained takes a little time to get an identity,create its universe,the premise. About an hour actually,which I in 99.4% of all films would see as too long but meanwhile,Django's finding himself by going from Andre 3000 Purple clothing to a bad-ass with sunglasses and all and we get what I think is the funniest scene of the year.
Klan members about to lynch Schultz and Django..but as Don Johnson's Big Daddy says"I can't see shi- out this thing. Hold on,.just fuccin'with mah holes here." when the lynchbags are messed up. A soft-spoken,seemingly harmless,slightly feminine supremacist is the highlight.
When a not too logical/clever plot to save Broomhilda,Djangos bitch,is set in motion,Tarantino enters Candieland and a less blood filled environment but 6 times as tense. Calvin Candie is a plantation-owner,sophisticated and civilized on the outside,inside an ignorant sociopath,volatile,though not Maybe unreasonable.
Tarantino didn't write magical one-liners for DiCaprio but not needed,he handles the material like born to be Candie,more a cold business man then supremacist.
Walz is the good white guy in this tale,a German is the good guy. Polite,manipulative,educated,charming...yes,i get it. He's Landas righteous twin. It works,he is having a lot of fun,I think it's a good performance,I laughed,dug him but Walz inability to portray true anxiety and frustration is a slight problem.
Stephen is played by Jackson and as an old man who has adopted and adapted to his oppressors,owners culture,not a free man and the sight of a free black man makes him lose it...he is better then he's been the last ten years,he rally acts. It's a bold role and he nailed it.
Stephen is one thing in public and a trusted confidante and friend to Calvin behind closed doors...and Stephen notices things white folk don't.
I get that it's whites settling a score with them/ourselves, Candie conversing with Schulz but the structure of the story combined with Tarantino focusing on Django almost improvised,or rather let's him speak...it gets a bit uneven,it derails in a few ways when our title character is silent and not the kind you can't take your eyes off,hard to care all that much for even,with three other great actors on game here.
You don't dislike Django and his revenge on the racist slave-owners,it's magic...Foxx just isn't that interesting.
When two characters,the most interesting,disappears like they were a couple of extras,it's Djangos show. There will be blood,buckets. And now the focus is on the revenge Q probably tried to delay as long as possible,while delivering it brutal. Limbs fly,blood gushes...while we mourn a character.
DU works better when the threat of violence is in the air then when things get there;then it's almost secondary. Clipping two great characters with 30 minutes to go was not the wisest,as in;DU could easily be 25 minutes shorter. Most songs like Rick Ross"I got a name" work and fit like a glove,one,two doesn't...
It's tense,people pretend,act polite and Candie might not believe all his guests are telling him but money and his narcissism risks becoming his losing hand.
PS.Kerry"eyecandy" Washington is a sweetie who got real blood in her face,poor thing. She's in it too,yes.
This is a film that crackles,sparkles and is on fire with its signature Tarantino dialog. Like tennis-players.the actors love doing their part before hitting the ball to their opponent. He sure knows how to get the best out of an actor.
Django's a flick with some ugly,heinous,despicable sights of where "we" were in 1858,some 150 years ago. The use of the N-word among people like this is necessary and disturbing,these creeps don't see the problem with their legit business,they commit no crime,not cruel in their eyes. You don't get tird of it,you understand more and more how sick it all was,how little a black life was worth. Literally.
I sometimes choked on my popcorn during a funny line that came 2 seconds prior...cause sometimes,this genius creates a line of dialog both hysterically funny and unbelievably offensive,creating some embarrassment,as maybe it should...
Would be a 10 if not for some obvious but few flaws... But slaves in chains walking along to bling-bling rap...no,it did Not work. Think sometimes,Q.
I'd say this is the most entertaining,original and bold film of 2012,albeit not a true masterpiece. He should've been Oscarnommed for best director. Go see,now...now!!
It's a real Rich,cinematic experience and I don't use that term often. Check that,never.