Maybe Tarantino's Best Yet

Rating: 9/10 (15 August 2019)

This may well rank as the most brilliant of Tarantino film to date. Where to begin? First there is the attention to period detail of both societal styles of the 1960's, but the popular music and more importantly the TV shows and B-movies of the decade. This movie even far more than the brilliant Coen brothers Buster Scruggs movie lavishes real love particularly on the Hollywood Western genre. But deeper than just the visual acuity and styling, the movie delves more deeply into the lives, minds and character of those who played in those Westerns and were so caught up by the Hollywood system and lifestyle. And Tarantino, always brilliant but long in dialogue, here comes up with great dialogue on a more condensed and sharper scale, but using extreme and intense facial close-ups to reveal more of a character. Finally, anyone who has read an account of the Charlie Manson cult murders will be able to readily identify with certain aspects and characters, but unless you've read or seen spoilers, you will not know where the deliberately heightened tension toward the climax of the film will lead. Thank you, Quentin Tarantino, for this brilliant piece of film artistry.