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| Django Unchained, a Quentin Tarantino’s film |
There was a
time in the wild wild west where guns & bullets could solve pretty much all
of the problems.. That was in 1859, 2 years
before the American civil war, where story of Django the slave & bounty
hunter Dr. King Schultz took place.. Schultz’s hunt for the murderous Brittle
brothers soon turns into a rescue mission of Broomhilda, Django’s beloved wife which
lost in a slave trade long ago. Eventually they found out that Broomhilda is
now a house slave of Calvin Candie, proprietor of "Candyland," an
infamous plantation..Thus quest to the rescue!..
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained stars by solid Cast actor
Christoph Waltz (Dr. King Schultz), Jamie Foxx (Django- The "D" is
silent) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Calvin Candie) is certainly an entertaining one,
it is complete (2 hr 30 min+ showing time), brutal, extravagant and ferociously
violent (18SX under Film Censorship Board of Malaysia).
Here’s what top critics in the film industries had to say
about the film:
The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy, who included it in
his top 10 films of 2012, wrote: “Tarantino’s affinity for black culture and
interest in the ways blacks and whites relate always have been evident, but
they’ve never before been front and center to the extent that they are in
Django Unchained. Some might object to the writer-director’s tone, historical
liberties, comic japes or other issues, but there can be no question who gets
the shaft here: This is a story of justifiable vengeance, pure and simple, and
no paleface is spared, even the good German who facilitates a slave’s
transformation into a take-no-prisoners hunter of whites who trade in black
flesh.”
New York Times’ A.O. Scott: “It is digressive, jokey,
giddily brutal and ferociously profane. But it is also a troubling and
important movie about slavery and racism.”
Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday: “The art of creative
anachronism Tarantino practices in this extravaganza of Southern gothic camp is
far more successful than 2009’s Inglourious Basterds in meaningfully engaging
the history it’s repurposing. Where Basterds was little more than a larky
speculative burlesque, Django Unchained possesses an unmistakable subversive
power, its playfully insurrectionist spirit perhaps the modern-day pop-culture
equivalent of far more high stakes rebellions of yore.”
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| acknowledgement to Nuffnang for the invitation :) |
So obviously Django Unchained is a great movie as it is thrilling,
funny, brutal and superbly-acted. Though it comes with admittedly overlong
running time, but still it’s worth it.
Rating: 7.9/10
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