Quentin Tarantino fills my revengeful soul like no other filmmaker. He portrays Nazis as cultured and articulate men you can't wait to be killed (painfully). And now Southern slave owners are played as mean to the core, chillingly violent, and in one silly scene stupidly dependent on their wives to make proper KKK hoods. I just LOVED this quintessential Tarantino film. He gives a revisionist view of history where slaves (oh yes, called n****** throughout) rise up and are amazingly successful in retribution. "You wanna cut off my balls? I'll shoot you in yours." Who could not cheer for that moment?
Christoph Walz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel Jackson and Kerry Washington are perfectly cast and brilliantly deliver. The dialogue is wonderful, as is the photography. Alas, Tarantino's editor recently died so there is too much of the stuff he loves (she would have deleted), but nevertheless a GREAT film. A great re-making of American history.
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