Not Your Daddy's Caddy

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2020)

I was almost 1/3 through watching this before the LIGHT went off that allowed me to appreciate what QT was up to in this wonderful masterpiece that defies any and all expectations one might have walking into a theatre to see it. Therefore it is quite understandable that a lot of people did not like this film -- even fans of his previous works who consider this one to be too weird and his worse film. Again, the genius artist has simply ran too far ahead of (most) of his audience. So what follows is my understanding of what the film is DOING -- confirmed by statements I heard afterwards from publicity interviews, but which I had a strong inkling of as the LIGHT went off until the end of the film.
#1. This is not a film ABOUT the Brad Pitt and Leo D. characters: it is a film about Hollywood DURING the time when they are shown to be active. This story about Hollywood rests on two hinges: the transition from the Cowboy series TV dominate era (where someone like Clint Eastwood could emerge from Rawhide to become Dirty Harry and "the rest is history"; but more importantly the hinge of Before and After the Sharon Tate murder.
#2. In Revising the historical facts so boldly: What would have happened if, instead of falling upon a pregnant woman and her friends, these hippy creeps would have got their comeuppance at the hands of a stunt man and a TV movie star? What would have been the alternate experience of the whole of Hollywood and American culture if things on that night had turned out as QT imagined? I imagine that folks who live through it experienced his alternative telling as a deeply cathartic fantasy. Thanks QT for feeling and healing our pain.
#3. There is a very telling saying of the great photographer Ansel Adams. "My greatest fear was that I would become an imitation of myself." QT has broken the sound barrier in creating what is practically a new cinematic genre: a quasi-social psychological therapeutic historical revisionism. I know that is a mouthful, but it seems to capture most of what is going on in this deep, deep film.
I simply marvel at what this man will do NEXT.
Thank you QT.