The Tarantino Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2020)

I consider this movie to be the final movie in a trilogy of Tarantino's greatest works--Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained. In both of these movies, Tarantino has changed history to the benefit of his audience. They are dreams of how we wish the world worked--Like they do in the movies.
Tarantino's biggest success in this film was in creating a movie dedicated to a single individual where that individual is not a main character of the film. She is presented significantly in it, but both Cliff and Rick are the main characters. This could have been a biopic of Sharon Tate, but just like super hero origin stories, it would have been a miss.
Tarantino is a film maker. He has watched more movies than should be humanly possible. The moment of Tate's death created an impact not just on the freewheeling culture in Hollywood, but also the films that followed in the wake of her death. This movie is Tarantino's third movie in changing history--What if Sharon Tate had not been horribly murdered by Manson's followers?
There was a time in Hollywood where rugged action heroes saved the day. Fictional characters that existed in the country's subconscious. In reality though, even those heroes could not save Sharon Tate. In Tarantino's fantasy, they were able--No matter how ignorant and belligerent. In the context of films of that era, it's a fantasy to believe.
Sharon Tate was murdered because the world is cruel. Wouldn't it be nice to still pretend it wasn't so, just like in the way Hollywood used to portray it?