Feet shots have never been this gratuitous

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2019)

I'm gonna get my one negative feeling for this movie out of the way before I start sucking Quinton Tarantino's toes. The decision to change the historical events for a happy ending I personally feel was the right way to go, especially for a movie that feels like Tarantino's personal wish fulfillment (not a bad thing). However this wish fulfillment makes an odd point, and I don't think it was intentional. If Sharon Tate's death was seen as the end of that era then symbolically this movie shows a world where those times didn't have to end. But isn't it weird that the symbolic death of the sixties at the hands of an extremely violent act was prevented by another extremely violent action, and I'm not saying the psycho hippies were victims, I'm just saying that ending you're movie on that point feels odd.
That being said I still love the movie. Every shot, and every song, and every moment the characters don't wear seat belts makes you wish you could live in that time. And that's why despite my complaint I have zero problem with the ending. Because my heart is warmed by the idea of a universe where the hippie movement got to live a little longer, Sharron Tate's career could be fully realized, hitchhikers could still get rides, and acid could be 50 cents. I even found myself on the ride home listening to classics from that decade just to keep that warm nostalgic feeling going, and I wasn't even alive to experience that time.
Despite its simplicity in its intention once upon a time in Hollywood manages to be the perfect sum up of Tarantino's career, a lot of cigarettes, feet, and an overwhelming sense of longing for a time you know no one will ever get to experience again.
Also I burst out laughing when Margaret Qualley had her feet pressed against the windshield of Rick's car, and I feel so bad for being disruptive like that, but I think we can all agree that whole scene was the peak of Tarantino's foot fetish. That shots gonna circulate among guys who like feet for a long time.