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DJANGO UNCHAINED

Quentin Tarantino USA, 2012
Tarantino doesn't transcend the tropes of the revenge film, or the odd-couple buddy comedy for that matter. For all the film's ostentatiously shocking imagery and dialogue (Tarantino employs the word "nigger" in a fashion that resembles the gimmicky scare tactics associated with director William Castle), one can't escape the suspicion that this movie's a bloated vanity project with delusions of grandeur.
April 19, 2013
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...Tarantino is a buffoon, one of the biggest in the history of American cinema. That doesn't mean he is unimportant, however: his originality and his undeniable talent ultimately prevent us from dismissing him because of his frequent public clownishness. Indeed, a buffoon, and especially a talented buffoon, should be taken seriously precisely because not everything he says or does is serious.
März 21, 2013
If for Lincoln slavery is an ethical battle to be fought in the house of law, for Django it is an unlawful aberration to be violently obliterated. The constitutional "debate" around slavery in Lincoln implicitly legitimizes the anti-abolitionist stance; Django on the contrary deems it too immoral and inhuman to be dealt with "democratically.
März 12, 2013
Cinética
This is a confused film, if a self aware one, that starts with the good European freeing the slave and ends closing its focus less in the slave owners than over one "house negro". But this confusion contributes to its strengths, because it never allows easy ways out from its own ambivalence. With its tortuous rhythm... Django Unchained loses its story in the middle of the farce, but remains of great emotional transparency. It is an honest film in its crude ugliness.
März 11, 2013
It's flabby, visually beautiful and often violent; I think it's Tarantino's weakest film, but still lively enough to be intermittently entertaining... Django doesn't disappoint in terms of dialogue, both Schultz and Candie getting some enjoyably ripe speeches (Django himself is more laconic); and the tension is there too, at least in some scenes – but the film is so self-indulgent that tension eventually dissipates.
Februar 1, 2013
Screen Machine
[The normalization of the word "nigger"] becomes sinister. This doesn't make it less painful to hear, but this isn't merely Tarantino getting away with something as some have suggested. Django is dependent upon its language to flesh out its world, which is equal parts history and horseshit.
Februar 1, 2013
I was riveted and numbed and amused and disgusted. Like any film of significance, I will surely never forget it. Yet it is never in doubt that Django will triumph, and Tarantino doesn't unfurl his tale with sensitivity or originality of form or content.Embracing an aesthetic which pays little respect to the ugliness of the milieu, it plods along, a work of brutish, terribly troubling, ultimately unfulfilling art, one that adds up to little more than adolescent superficiality.
Februar 1, 2013
Does [Tarantino's former editor Sally Menke's] absence explain its lagging pace? Swollen by Tarantino's usual loquaciousness – there are so many monologue breaks it feels like a toastmasters' meeting – Django Unchained stretches towards three hours of screen time and has a rambler's tendency to repeat itself. At times this seems merely careless – Tarantino twice uses a fainting woman as a punchline – and at others it seems part of the master blueprint, as in the movie's double-climax.
Januar 18, 2013
Capsules from Hell!
The result is indeed a spectacular film, but a strangely arid one. It has gargantuan human and geographic scope (snowy Wyoming in all its peaceful glory is on fine display, as are Mississippi's mournful cypress trees), yet it remains atomized and powdery—every swing of the giant rubber tooth adorning Schultz's buckboard while he poses as a dentist demands the same amount of attention as the fusillades that litter the climax.
Januar 15, 2013
Django Unchained may be entertaining and occasionally funny, but its ideas don't really hold up. The characters' racism is supposed to be shocking, but we've all seen this sort of stuff in countless dramas and historical documentaries. Strip away all the hip music and spaghetti-western set pieces and you're left with True Romance (1993), which Tony Scott directed from a Tarantino script.
Januar 2, 2013
Big Media Vandalism
Django Unchained isn't my dream scenario's epic statement, but it is the loud noise atop the snow-covered mountain, the sound that will hopefully cause the avalanche. You asked for my falling-in-love moment, and I've many to choose from, but I'll go with QT's placement of Jim Croce's I Got A Name.
Januar 1, 2013
Big Media Vandalism
This movie won't leave me alone because I, too, fell in love with it. The first swoon was during the scene where King and Django have a teachable moment over beers in a saloon while waiting for a Sheriff to come arrest them. That sequence is the essence of what a lot of Tarantino detractors deny exists: his restraint. The hilarity of that series of negotiations and killings is all about rhythm, pace and QT's delight in his stylized characters.
Januar 1, 2013