Django Unchained

(2012)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	DVD

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80%

Amusing and ironic satire on Institutional Racism and White supremacy that reveals the White tendency toward sado-masochism, as well as the belief that Blacks are incorrigibly worthless.

The characterization is weak, but Samuel JACKSON is particularly brilliant as the House Negro whose obsequiousness is as funny as it is self-hating. The plot is somewhat longwinded and, as usual with film director Quentin TARANTINO, refuses to keep a tight focus on the drama’s themes - like a researcher so caught-up in his research that he becomes obsessed with the See Also. Moreover, the style is so slick it adds nothing to the drama.

This film tests the limits of White understanding of race-relations’ since Whites can only ever really understand their White guilt from the inside and not the realistic world-view shared by Blacks that comes from not deluding themselves about the true nature of Whites and their culture. A kind of comedy version of Mandingo.

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