Somewhat pornographic

Rating: 3/10 (24 August 2009)

It's funny that Tarantino portrays German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as an enemy in his film - because Hollywood seems to be quite a good pupil.
For Hollywood it's all the same, but of 100 Germans during WWII 10 were real Nazis and maybe 1 in 1.000 was a Nazi murderer (in a concentration camp, taking part in a war crime etc.). The ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers were no more Nazis than the about 10 percent in the whole German population and of course they were not murderers - they were just fighting bravely for their country (although they were not fighting for the good side, but at that time that was not so clear for most Germans - mass murder of the Jews for example was a state secret). Many American leaders and generals have expressed respect for Wehrmacht soldiers after WWII as honorable men.
Making a film that takes revenge of the real Nazi murderers - that's OK. By the way, there were and still are lots of Nazis in countries outside of Germany. But why making again and again and again films that make Germans and especially German soldiers subhuman beings you can just kill? Why are American brains so addicted to this primitive affect? Is it because you feel ashamed for the genocide on Native Americans and Black Americans? Does the American society leave you with so many dark emotions that you have to ab-react them in a racist way of manner - it's no excuse to hide behind a "Jews / good Americans are taking revenge of bad Nazis" - mask.
There is the scene where a highly decorated German soldier, who was captured by the "basterds", is tortured that he will be brutally killed if he does not betray the position of his comrades. He is very brave not to do so and then faces being murdered by the "Bear Jew". The whole scene is filmed as this were some funny baseball game. Is that cinema for apes? Can that really be funny? Are you sick when you enjoy watching such a scene?
Another scene: the cinema (within the film) is filled with some Nazi leaders like Hitler and Goebbels, but also lots of Wehrmacht soldiers, civilians, notably 3 schoolgirls. The theater is then locked, and the film tells you that it is now totally OK and great fun that all these people are now burned to death and additionally killed by machine guns. Is this the revenge for Hitler and Goebbels enjoying American soldiers being killed, by the way strongly reminiscent of American movie audiences enjoying it when Wehrmacht soldiers are killed? All in all a very weired massacre, and if you liked it, you are in my eyes either sick, evil or just very similar to the Nazi murderer you think you're taking revenge on.
So my résumé is... forget "Inglorious Basterds". See "Deep Throat" instead. It's the much better porn.