A fictional redemption for a lost generation of idealism and presumed innocence

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2019)

I took myself on a day date to see it because I like Tarantino.
Everyone knows that I'm sick of the exploitation of Manson... but I see what Tarantino did here.
Expect to be satisfied. Throughout the story we see what is happening to several iconic images of Americana. The humble hero and his sidekick. The beautiful starlet. The breakdown of a former society by a new generation of idealism and rebellion. Through the almost meta and flippant discussions of producers costuming the fictional actors and the use of actual radio commercials and television ads that copied (and exploited) the 60's counter culture of fashion and music, we see how the Hollywood ad culture and someone like Manson and everyday commercial brands discredited and corrupted a generation that was trying to fight all of that.
Much like "Inglourious Basterds" and its fictional ending for the Nazi party at the hands of the next Jewish generation, I'm glad that the historical villain in this story is not glamorized or even focused on, while at the same time the good guys win. When I saw "Basterds" in the theaters there was a woman crying and saying that she loved all of it because she had Jewish relatives who died in the Holocaust.
This was a fictional tale of redemption for a generation of idealism, resistance and innocence that was commodified, commercialized, and exploited to brink of a horrific end.