Tarantino brings his "revenge of the underdog"-genre to perfection

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2010)

Well, this movie literally is blowing my mind. I spent two sleepless nights about it. It opens with the most heartbreaking and captivating scene I've ever witnessed in my life and throws me right back to being 13 and reading Anne Frank's diary. Maybe I'm being oversensitive: neither could I reread Anne Frank, nor will I dare to watch this scene a second time - not in a long time at least. But luckily, Shosanna Dreyfus, a 19-year-old French Jew, survives this scene. In the next scene we're introduced to Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a Tennessee man who claims to have some Apache blood in him, and his men. Brad Pitt delivers the most hilarious performance of his career. His relaxed Tennessee drawl brings on such a contrast to the hysteria of World War II, it knocks me off my feet. Raine's mission isn't funny though: He wants to kill Nazis, and he wants to put fear into them. And the means he and his men use may appear brutal to those who are in denial of what happened at Auschwitz and in the factories of Alfred Krupp simultaneously, but what the heck: This is World War II, who would expect a non-violent movie? One of the most hilarious scenes of the whole movie comes next. Aldo Raine's methods DO work, Hitler believes one of Raine's men might be the Golem. Now what a beautiful reference that is! And to a modern audience that doesn't know about the Golem, he brings on a reference to Lord Voldemort at the same time. That's enough for the spoilers: This movie is worth watching several times, for there are plenty of references, great dialogues and complex characters. The fact that it has been partially shot at the same place where Joseph Goebbels' movies were filmed, that also knocks me off my feet. Go watch it! Mister Quentin Tarantino, this is really your masterpiece!