A Look Into Darkness

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2013)

Where to start? Quentin Tarantino does it again! Django Unchained was and is a fantastic film. Not knowing too much about the premise of the film going into it, I was pleasantly surprised with the balance of humor and grit that the movie portrayed. At first, I thought the movie would be all blood and guts with little to offer in terms of plot development. However, as the film progressed I was tickled pink by the subplot of Django working to get his wife back from the clutches of the volatile Southern landowner (a role played beautifully by Leo Di Caprio). What began as a film about a white and black man working together (in the setting of a time in which racial equality was not commonplace) as bounty hunters ended up being about not giving up on love, too. Though a bit drawn out at times, the classic humor embedded in Tarantino's films was not lost among the blood and explosions that we expect when associating a film with the legendary man mentioned previously. Tarantino's cameo was a wonderful bit as well (as usual) and helped to set up the final scene (the obliteration of everyone in Django's way) quite well. Highly recommend this movie.