Django Unchained Review

Django Unchained is a film about exploitation and brutality in the antebellum South, brimful of those signature touches that have made the Tarantino name.

The year is 1858, the place a wood somewhere in Texas, through which a band of slaves is being marched, shivering in chains.

Out of the mist emerges one Dr. Schultz, played by Christoph Walt, who is a dapper German dentist turned bounty hunter, who stops to ask if there is a slave that is coming from the plantation that he is headed to. The two white slavers become impatient with Schultz and threaten to shoot him if he does not leave.

The scene ends badly for the slavers, but Schultz has found his man, a slave named Django, played by Jamie Foxx, who agrees to help him hunt down three outlaws in exchange for his freedom. Django is also looking for his German-speaking slave wife Broomhilda, played by Kerry Washington.

Django and Schultz find their way to the plantation of Calvin Candie, a Southern aristocrat played by Leonardo DiCapro. Candie is a well-mannered but cruel man who enjoys torturing slaves and hosting Mandingo fights.

But DiCaprio isn't even the worst villain of all, that goes to Stephen, the head house slave played by Samuel L. Jackson.

Tarantino does a beautiful job of working the touchy subject of slavery into such a heart-wrenching and courageous tale. Django has elements of extreme violence and bizarre humor that work hand in hand to make this epic tale of revenge an instant classic. This is Quentin's best work in years and is a must see for any movie goer.

I'm Tom Schultz for At The Movies.

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