Yes, there are ideas here, swimming about the blood and gore

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2019)

Some of Quentin Tarantino´s films have been nonstop gore-fests, and I am always a bit hesitant to subject myself to such extreme depictions of violence (Natural Born Killers--written by Tarantino but directed by Oliver Stone--was another one which gave me a headache...). While Django Unchained is not as good as Pulp Fiction, and it is much more violent as well, it also raises some very disturbing questions about the history of slavery.
Most importantly, from an artistic point of view, Tarantino has managed to create a peculiarly Tarantino Western genre film in an unexpected context. Yes, the ¨good¨ protagonists are all vaguely repugnant, but they are true antiheroes in the Western genre film tradition. Tarantino knew what he was doing when he put this piece together. Still too violent for my tastes, and much of it gratuitously horrific, but I cannot fault Tarantino for being Tarantino. That is who he is!