Take an eye for an eye and everybody will be blind eventually

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2009)

This movie is shocking in every way, and it should be, because what else should you expect from a director whose trademark is blood-filled-violent-killing-scenes and who is making a movie based on the 2nd World War? Perhaps we could say that Tarantino glorifies violence, but I think that's just the way he expresses his ideas and points of view. Somebody will write a poem, somebody will draw a painting, but Tarantino will shoot an aggressive and brutal movie. It is just a way of expression. So why is this movie so special (or not)? Well, it actually IS an antiwar movie. Too bad the plot is set in WWII time, so basically most people will agree that killing Nazis is good because they don't deserve to live because they are the worst enemies this world has ever seen because human kind has never done anything like that and will never do something like that again and if somebody deserves to be scalped, it's the Nazis, and so on and so on It is quite simple to understand this and accept it as a final fact - if you're a five-year-old kid that is. It's interesting how Tarantino managed to portray that in the movie itself (the cinema scene). So basically we (the human race) kill because somebody else killed us first, we take an eye because somebody took ours eye first, and eventually all that is given to us we take and destroy among ourselves, while somebody is laughing and having fun (and people in my theater did laugh few times on the scalp scenes, actually). It's a sad truth, but not to everybody. The film has great acting though, especially by Christoph Walz.