Here is a movie
that catches your interest from the very beginning, with a masterful intro that
gets you hooked as you look forward to seeing how the movie is going to play
out. The movie’s lead actors (Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, and Leonardo
DiCaprio) were the cream on the cake, as they delivered memorable acting that
won’t make you forget Django easily.
Django Unchained,
I can boldly say, lived up to the hype. This action-packed movie is for all
(above 17) to see.
Written and
directed by Quentin Tarantino and released on Christmas Day of 2012, the movie
is set two years before the American Civil War, and it deals with the slave
trade and Mandingo.
Tarantino got
inspiration for the film from Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 movie Django, which,
at the time of its release, was tagged to be the most violent movie ever made.
This movie also borrowed elements from the 1975 film Mandingo, which was
about slaves being trained to fight other slaves in a Roman gladiator-style.
Django Unchained’s
plot is about love and revenge. Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave being taken to
be sold when a bounty hunter approaches the men transporting him and starts
questioning the slaves to see who knows some men he is hunting. Django knows
them, and after some unforeseen circumstances, both roll out as bounty hunters,
killing many and selling their corpses to the authorities for money.
During their
money-making endeavors, Dr. King (Christoph Waltz) asks Django the one thing
that he wants. Django’s reply is that he wants to free his enslaved wife.
So, he and Dr.
King (who seems to be up for any kind of adventure) set off to free her. But in
order to do that, they have to fool Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who
is the owner of Django’s wife, into selling her to them. This must be done
wisely, as the heavily suspicious Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) is watching.
The movie isn’t
all sunshine—there were some letdowns, like the intensive violence. The heavy
use of the word “nigger” may not go down well with some, and I guess if you’re
one for history, the depiction of slavery as a Western shootout may not sit
well with you. Also, the Mandingo element of the movie (slaves fighting slaves
while their masters bet and watch) can be seen as insulting, since there is no
historical evidence that such a thing ever existed.
Django Unchained is a good movie, one you will enjoy if you’re ready to put sentiments aside.
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