Tarantino, revealed.

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2019)

To understand this movie you need to know history well, as well as Hollywood history, you need to love the movies, and to love fairy tales. The warning and disclaimer are right there in the title of the movie. If you don't check all the boxes you will not get this movie and you will hate it. But if you do get it, you will be right to leave the theater thinking this was one of Tarantino's masterpieces
All these years we thought Quentin was going to saturate us with violence forever, but look at what a sentimental pacifist he turned out to be.
Just like in Inglorious Basterds, where Tarantino gave the Third Reich what they deserved by machine-gunning them all down in a movie theater, so in this fairy tale he puts the world right again, as it should have been, but now he gives life instead of taking it.
It's nearly impossible to justify one's opinion about this movie without offering spoilers, but I decided not to offer any. No spoilers here.
Just know that if you are very familiar with Hollywood History and are a cinephile, if you know the details of the true story of one of this movie's characters, Sharon Tate, and if you like fairy tales, then you are going to absolutely love Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood and maybe even shed a happy tear in the final scene, like I did.
The acting marks high points in the actors' careers. The direction is pure and matured Tarantino. The story and the ending, the blending of real-life and fictional characters and events, brilliant and perfectly delivered.