An open letter of love for cinema

Rating: 8/10 (20 August 2019)

"Once upon a time in Hollywood" is primarily in the first instance a tribute. Tribute to the golden age of 1960s cinema, a tribute to Clint Easterwood, Sergio Leone, John Wayne, Giuliano Gemma, Henry Fonda and many, many other actors and directors who marked the era, but most importantly, an honor to promising actress Sharon Tate, suddenly and cruelly murdered in the late 1960s by the followers of charles manson. This point brings us to another stage of the film, the cruel and delicious revenge posed by Tarantino.
The film has a troubled script, a twist between the first two acts, as well as undeveloped characters and many scenes that are completely unrelated to the main plot, but one of these scenes has a greater meaning than serve the script, they serve as a tribute, and fulfill their role, but that does not exempt Tarantino's ninth film, famous for the scripts and already nominated for the Oscar for such a requirement to leave so many edges and screen filling during the almost three hours long, however, the other technical requirements and art are so good that these nearly three hours fly by.
In terms of acting, we have no mistakes, the whole cast of the film is spectacular, from the main to the big stars, such as Brad Pitt, who is extremely comfortable and having fun in his role, the actor, who gives himself to his age and his character is a great performer and can paint on the Oscars as an adjunct, Leonardo DiCaprio is also great, doing an extremely effusive and dramatic performance, he has done nothing very different from what he has done in other roles, but still great Margot Robbie is also fine, and who deserves another highlight, although with a short appearance is Margaret Qualley, playing a sensual, dark and scary character that serves as a presentation pivot for Manson sect, another character that appears little but looks great is Mike Moh as BruceLee.
Technically the film has errors, especially in transitions, cuts and continuity, but the vast majority seems to be on purpose, as a kind of controversial signature of the Director, the other points, such as ambiance, scenery composition are spectacular, a photograph extremely hot, which matches the great sixties atmosphere of the work. Another very strong point is the soundtrack, which is present here in very different ways, we have classic songs from other movies of the time, pop songs of the time, incidental tracks, and whenever a character gets in the car, we have the radio of the time playing , a small, beautiful and wonderful detail, a track that may not be as striking as Kill Bill or Pulb Fiction, but that conquer us by diversity, creating a unique context the work, which is not only on the track, the sound of the film in overall is very well edited, such as the camera angles used by Tarantino, the director knows very well how to film his actors and make the most of his performances just using the cameras, but the film editing presents problems of cohesion and continuity as already quoted.
When we watched "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" we felt Tarantino's love of cinema, it is clear, the director wanted to honor in every way possible the genres that marked the age of the eighth art, and makes a film about movies for lovers of In films, this creates a detachment from the public outside this universe, the excess of visual, photographic and sound references does not make sense to the general public, who do not know exactly which core of the story to follow, since everything seems a creation of contexts to speak and honor the cinema, a large fruit salad whose script appears discreetly here or there, this is a problem. But the love of cinema exposed here does not let me dislike this feature, quite the contrary, despite some problems, is a movie made for us who love cinema we keep in our hearts.
"Once upon a time in Hollywood" is far from perfect. but the almost three hour long is a dedication of love to the seventh art and all that involves it, music, choreography, actors and genres, a dedication, an open letter that brings eye drops to the eyes of the big screen lovers, the general public may not feel the same and get very lost and bored during the film, even with the great cast, but we can not deny, it is a cool movie that fulfills its goal and will surely be on the list of many favorites, if you like cinema, You need to watch "Once upon a time in Hollywood".