Revenge...morality...

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2009)

Revenge is something that would define Quentin Tarantino. You only have to look to Kill Bill 1+2 to see how Tarantino dances outside the boundaries of morality and humanity and appeals to ugly, violent human urges of blood lust and revenge.
What is different in this film is that we see Tarantino appealing to a greater, social hostility to Third Reich and the Nazi Reigeme. We've all sat through history classes, seen the pictures of mutilated, malnourished corpses..maybe read books such as "Night", or seen films such as "Schindlers list". Needless to say, the Nazi reigeme has come to represent the dark depths of humanity.
What Inglorious basterds may do (for some) is to satisfy an urge, an ugly urge to get even with Nazi's. It's Tarantino's version of history, the awesome version where Brad Pitt and his Jewish, Nazi-hunting crew collect Nazi scalps as accolades.
Some viewers may be shocked. They may argue "an eye for an eye makes the world go blind". I have to admit, I wasn't sympathetic with the Basterds cause after "the bear jew" beat a helpless Nazi officer to death with a baseball bat. Or when the cinema burned down with helpless patrons running towards locked doors as 2 of the basterds unloaded rounds of lead into the fleeing crowds. But yet, this movie was not meant to be morally profound, this movie is, of course, Tarantino.