Explosive revenge fantasy

Rating: 9/10 (20 April 2020)

Two years before the Civil War, in the Deep South, a black slave Django happens to be freed by a bounty hunter Schultz, and becomes his partner. After a few bounty hunts, they set off for search for Django's wife, who turned out to be captured in a house of a rich slaver, the villanous Calvin Candie.
Django's former life was constant torture of slavery. He, and his wife too, has 'r' mark on his cheek, which is burned when he tried and failed to 'run' away. When he finds his former owners as bounty targets, his revenge starts to go off.
Django's character development is quite winding. Everyone will loves him when he eagerly asks Schultz to tell the German folklore about Broomhilda, the same name as his wife's. But as Schultz educate him as a bounty hunter, a kind of Frankenstein twist starts. His innate anger is fiercer than Schultz has expected. And it is rightly so.
The depiction of cruelty of slave owners is agonising. Every time they tortured slaves almost due to their pleasure, I wtote down in my mind ledger how much they will have to pay for that. And what tortured me was the fear Tarantino might fail to get them paid properly, choosing to put an unwanted tragic end on Django.
But it never happened. The directer brilliantly gives every torturerer what they deserves. The shoot-them-up scene in Candie's mansion is total catharsis. Splatting blood, flying bullets, in almost Matrix-like slowmotion and a gang hip-hop song.
As for the real slavery issue, I learned some people criticize the film for, as far as I understand, using this as just entertainment material. They sound understandable to me. I was kind of baffled myself, at the ending scene where Broomhilda covers her ears as Candie's mansion is blown off by dynamites. I felt as if I was told that "take it easy, the whole movie is just comic, don't take it so seriously". But what the point of the excessively cruel torture scenes, if they are not to remind us of the real tragidy of slavery history?