A Genuine Masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2017)

Django Unchained offers an alternative approach to historical race relations through Tarantino's unique filmmaking skills.
Yes, the film is violently offensive and negative towards white elitists. The first time I watched the film I was disturbed by scenes involving torture and shooting.
However, Tarantino has inspired me to learn more about the exploitation films that have clearly inspired him. I have noticed that I used to get upset and uncomfortable when seeing white people negatively or comically portrayed in Blaxploitation films. This film does the opposite for good reasons.
African Americans have been and continue to be visually misrepresented in the media and film. Django Unchained aggressively demonstrates this toxicity and human trafficking in order to raise awareness.
Just think of how many hundreds of thousands of people still enjoy watching thuggish law enforcement on Fox's Cops (still popular since 1989) target minority males and people of color, yet this is legitimate entertainment? I doubt that anyone who has given this film a negative review has ever seen a spaghetti western, such as the original Django (1966) film with Italian superstar Franco Nero.
Those who don't know Navajo Joe (1966), Death Rides of Horse (1967) and even They Call Me Trinity (1970), are poorly qualified to judge this cinematic homage to the holy trinity of western exploitation directors: Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Sollima.