The plot, while a little unorthodox (what would you expect?), is very easy to follow and quite fun. This movie is a Western at heart, and it’s really fun to see how Tarantino changes this genre. I really sympathized with some of the characters, and others, while not quite deserving of my sympathy, were definitely fun to watch on screen.
If you can’t handle watching blood on screen this is a movie to stay away from. There are things shown I never thought I’d witness in my life. Many Nazis are scalped (at the request of the Apache) and some fall to an even more brutal fate. Violence might be a theme in this film, and more is witnessed on screen than off.
If violence is a theme, then suspense is its twin. More time is given the audience to imagine the ensuing bloodbath than time to actually witness the carnage itself. Like with any good narrative, you’ll be on the edge of your seat and you won’t even notice the nearly two and a half hours that pass.
This film is not for everyone. Squeamish people, nursing mothers, and the elderly would do best to avoid it. Other than that, if you like action, suspense, and seeing people getting cruelly dismembered, this is a must see.
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1 - Friendly Psychopath
War porn laced with uncomfortable moments of self reflection for mouth-breathing audience members who are unwittingly embracing extremism in their daily lives. It takes the tired use of terms like nazi and justice into the realm of WW2 era legends for deliberate over-exploitation and evokes emotion in ironic ways.
It's classic Tarantino where you laugh at gore due to witty dialogue of course but he also inverts it so that you are horrified by the characters on screen doing the same as you in the audience. Fucking brilliant stuff. It plants a germ in the minds of people going along without critical thought of just how extremist and intolerant we as a society have become. Like many of the characters in the film, some people are so perverted by violence in their lives that they cannot get by without rage directed at someone or something. Motivations and justice judgements aside, they compulsively need violence in their daily existence.