Tarantino's Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2013)

I viewed a trailer for Django around 3 months ago with vague interest and made a mental note to check it out, knowing that it would either sink or soar. It's tough to imagine Tarantino writing a better piece of fan fiction than that of his previous film, Inglorious Basterds, but he has now eclipsed that film along with Pulp Fiction with his newest work, Django: Unchained. Django is the ultimate story of retribution with an (anti)hero and motive the audience can all get behind. Jamie Foxx owns the role of a lifetime as the slave given freedom and the opportunity to exact his pain on the plantation owners ruling the south. Things get more complicated as the story progresses, but never so much that the audience becomes lost. That's not to say that Foxx steals the show, every actor is in full force for the entire film, and at no point is there a weak line thrown in. Django is an incredibly violent film, but this is to the film's credit as it exemplifies the horror of the slavery era and the terrible things those people had to go through. You will probably hate the villains just as much as Django by the film's midway point. But to no surprise, the most intense portions of the film are the long, drawn-out conversations conducted by Christopher Waltz's character (don't be surprised if he gains another Oscar this year, he's earned it). There is no other film I have seen in recent memory that deserves a ten star rating as much as this one. You don't have to love westerns to get into Django, you just have to love good films. Don't miss this one.