Genius.

Rating: 10/10 (16 August 2019)

It's been 24 hours since I've seen it and I'm not sure I have digested the whole amount of information in this movie.
Yes, it is long. 2h 40min long. But I can't see one minute that could have been taken of.
But why so many fans find this picture so genius and me included?
First you find all the elements he has been building through the years. Bounty Hunters in the Old West, Violence, Nazy Killings, and of course Hollywood (never forget The Man From Hollywood). It is now surprise in a Tarantino movie that is going to be carnage, but until the end, you are never completely sure how it will be.
Than you got his narrative. This time it's not Like Pulp Fiction, with different stories told out of chronological order. It's at least three movies, one for each protagonist, all happening at the same time with a lot of flashbacks. Brad Pitt is hilarious without needing to do any effort for it. The Background for why the stunts coordinator despises him is fantastic. Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a character so complex that you see his transformation between each character his character plays, and you see his struggle to be the best he needs to be to stay alive in the industry (the scene with Timothy Olyphant, when the camera goes back one shot is nothing less than a cinema lesson). But the most important is the construction of his Sharon Tate with Margot and the real footage of Tate. (To whom has no knowledge of what is about to happen it may be a little dumb at the end, but this is definitely the audience's mistake.)
The final part of the film is where it all comes together. At this part, you feel you know this totally fictitious character as their were real, after all, it's all so perfect mixed there with reality, that it could very well be real. By the time the three Manson family members get by their house something amazing happens, well to me at least. You KNOW he s narrating their entrance at the Polanski house, you KNOW this three will murder Tate and her friends, that he will say he is the devil and everything, but you are been fooled by Tarantino now, cheering for the lives of total fictional characters. The music grows tense and exciting every second and you want to make Cliff Booth do something, and not just stay stoned out of his mind. And he does it. And you will laugh. Loud and hard, because him, Francesca and Rick are about to change history.
After the laughter is pass, something them, truly genius and unique happens. Jay Sebring Invites Rick Dalton to the Polanski residence, and in that moment, the door to Hollywood are opened. A very pregnant Tate receives him to his home and in the most brilliant way I've ever seen, the movie title comes up and with you close your eyes a little bit you can imagine yourself listen someone saying Once Upon a Time, in Hollywood... and let your mind wonder what a different world could have been if the Polankis had a Rick Dalton as a neighbor and a very stoned Cliff Booth as a friend. That is the moment when at least my laughter turned to a little sadness inside, for the different world that could have been.