With all the critics that the director is being getting,
we all got to admit that Django unchained is by far the best.
Set in a depraved South "Django" is a revenge
fantasy against slave owners akin to Tarantino's "Inglorious" revenge
fantasy against the Nazis.
"Django Unchained" starts with Dr. King Schultz
(Christoph Waltz) intercepting a group of slaves and their captors in
dead-of-night Texas a few years before the Civil War. Schultz, a dentist turned
bounty hunter and an enlightened German national, seeks out Django (Jamie Foxx)
because the slave can identify some bounty-hunting targets who worked as
plantation overseers.
Schultz (sort of) purchases Django, after much
bloodshed, promising to set Django free after their mission is complete. He
feels guilty to "own" a man, he tells Django, but it also suits his
purposes temporarily.
The chatty Schultz serves as voice of reason and
quasi-narrator at the film's start, explaining his every action to Django as
they go. Waltz shows the same amiable manner and verbal ability he displayed in
his Oscar-winning role as a Nazi in "Inglorious." Here, though, he's
heroic.
Rated R, the movie runs for 165 minutes.
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington
Django Unchained will be screened on the 18TH
of January 2013.
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