Saturday, 29 August 2009
Zed's dead baby
We watched “Inglourious Basterds” the other day. Brilliant, but one has to have a highly developed Tarantino-esque taste! It is not for the uninitiated or for the light at heart! I regret to say that he remained faithful to his love for violence and knives, but sculling?! What is he thinking? I suppose one could see the humour in it but one has to keep watching and not covering one’s eyes all the time!And just as I was getting interested in baseball and the Red Sox, batting just went and got a completely new dimension! And mentioning Fenway Park just doesn’t have the intended ring!C. Waltz was excellent…though! Do I hear he is on the run for the Oscar? Well…it would be very well deserved. Actually, the rest of the cast were excellent as well! Brad Pitt gets an honourable mention for his brilliantly failed attempt to speak Italian! I loved the way Tarantino used music for effect (and boy was I touched with David Bowie!). The film had a number of good one-liners but was unfortunately no match for his previous efforts, of “I love you honey bunny” fame!
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Let me add my 'interpretation' of what Tarantino tries to tell us with this movie ('cause I fear that many ethical thinkers will just see this a promotion of violence for effect). It's all about we humans love the 'revenge' feeling (not the first time he uses that in his movie as a theme).
ReplyDeleteHe shows his movie-audience a mirror when he presents the laughing and shouting Nazi's (including Adolf) watching the new movie of Goebbels. That laughing and shouting and cheering is not much different from the reactions I heard in the audience (but than when the Nazi's were killed by the Bastards). Although it was more a smothered supporting laugh because we are not supposed to approve of this.
Or do I try to see too much in his story, and should we see it as another great storytelling product with some absurd twist of Quentin's mind?
Still, it is strange why the feeling of revenge tastes so sweet. Any Darwinist having a good explenation?
Thank you Pascal for your insights!
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