Not a single dish of revenge, but a 5 course meal!

Rating: 9/10 (5 February 2013)

If 'revenge is a dish best served cold', then QT serves us in Django a five course meal with a wide range of temperatures.
And that felt great to me as a viewer, to digest the different stages of revenge alongside our hero.
The first time Django gets his chance to avenge the brutality and humiliation he and his woman were exposed to, he furiously and uncontrollably whips and then shoots one of the Brittle brothers. And I felt the same hot blooded passion. When Calvin Candy gets one bullet through his despicable heart, I was surprised, but later thought: serves him well, not waste any other second on that scumbag. And when Stephen and the rest of the household get their share, you laugh at the cool, composed piece of showmanship (panache, anyone?) that Django has come up with. A sweet dessert after a heavy 3,4,5 course meal.
Concerning the N word. Yes, it is used in abundance. But at crucial moments it is absent, and that is what also counts, I think. For example, in the final little flashback when Schultz says to Django something like: 'They will call you the fastest gun in the South'. So in this final assessment of Django's achievement in the movie, Schultz makes no mention of the fact that he is a liberated black slave. He is a damn good gunslinger.
And a damn good gunslinger he was.