A critical look at the movie, "DJANGO Unchained" by Ray Young

Picture exstracted from  http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/11/13/django-unchained-poster/

Today I went and saw the movie that has had a lot of hype for months called “DJANGO UNCHAINED” and it was all that it was promised to be and more. Quentin Tarantino the writer/producer and director out did himself this time. It is starring Jamie Fox, Kerry Washington, who plays’s DJango’s wife, Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson just to name a few.  Just imagine, taking a story about slavery, adding a love story to it along with a western feel and humor and drama. The story line took place two years before the Civil War and  was told in such a way which made slavery very realistic.  At the same time, the movie poked fun at slavery and showed how stupid it was as well as racism or any other systematic system that belittles other human beings.  At the same time it is easy to look at with an exemption of a couple of violent scenes and the over use of the “N” word, but this was necessary to the movie to make the story line realistic and valid to that time.

In this movie the underdog prevailed.  The movie is a good message about justice.  And if you want to see a love story, a story of slavery and a story about justice and a very realistic story line,  this is the movie for you. Just like all of Tarantino movies, it is unpredictable. He flips the script in the middle of the movie. When you think it is almost over, the carpet is pulled from under you and the movie takes a totally different direction.  

"DJango Unchained" has been given a lot of criticism from some of its peers like Spike Lee and other people in Holly Wood. Lee feels that it is inappropriate to put the ills of slavery on the screen. Keep in mind that Spike Lee has not seen the movie and has been criticized for not liking any movie that he hasn’t produced himself.  Respectfully disagreeing with Lee, it is necessary to put the social ills of our nation’s bitter history on the screen. It was realistic, respectful and reminds us how crazy it was and still is. A nation that does not know its history will indeed repeat it. So we must never forget!   http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/spike-lee-goes-after-django-unchained/

There was another movie that was originally written called DJango in 1966 written and directed by Italian Sergio Cobucci and described as a Spaghetti western. It is quoted as “A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits. That man is Django, and he is caught up in a struggle against both parties”  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/
If one looks at the trailer of this movie it seems far more violent as the current remake “ Django Unchained”.  

  “ Django  Unchained” is a movie with a lot of messages and symbolism on many levels. So make sure you pay close attention to what is said, how it is said and what happens. It is poetry on the screen.  Jamie Foxx gives a stellar performance along with Kerry Washington and Samuel L Jackson who steals the movie.  I suggest all to go see this movie. Out of five stars I give it all five to Django.  Go see it, and remember that this is not a movie that you would want to bring any one under the age of 16.