Django Unchained. Simply Brilliant

A little while ago I got the chance to go see the new Quinton Tarantino film, Django Unchained, and holy crap was it a good one! I will admit that I have not seen all of Tarantino's films, only a handful of them, but I know enough about him to know that he doesn't like to scare away from what he wants the audience to feel when they see his films, and he has yet to disappoint me with the footage that I have seen of his.

The story is about a slave (played by Jamie Foxx) who gets the chance of a life time to go track down his wife, buy their freedom, and learn the ways of a bounty hunter, killing "white folk" for money. Now, being someone who is of African American decent, I cannot help but feel empowered watching these kind of movies. I'm sorry, it just happens automatically! I already find the history of slavery very interesting and something I like to educate myself on as much as I can, and even though this was very much so a Hollywood film, there were elements of the movie that I was actually really surprised to see in it. Now like I said before, Tarantino does not like to shy away from the details, and he does not in this movie one little bit. The amount of times that the world "nigger" was actually used in this movie was jaw dropping. I am not saying this as in it was jaw droppingly offensive, but as in "wow, this is what it was really like back then". Now I know that the word still uses the word in today's day and age, for multiple different meanings buy a whole assortment of people, but the way it is said in the movie is not directly meant to be offensive in the way that it is portrayed today. Yes, it was said with the meaning of inferiority in it, but it was such a normal thing back then, that whites and blacks used it in every kind of context. It is hard to say in words, but if you ever go and see the movie, listen to the way that they say the word and you will understand what I mean. It was a whole different world back then.

The last thing that I thought of after seeing this movie is just the changes in time in just a bit over one hundred years. Twenty years ago, this movie would have not been accepted at all to the general public. It would have been way to outlandish and totally offensive, but with the growing times, it has finally come into the light. This is what happened back then, we are showing it to you, deal with it. No more dancing around these subjects. They're being brought to the light and I think EVERYONE should be informed about it, whether its by a gun slinging, Tarantino western, or if it's even watching a documentary about it. Times are changing, and we need to change with them.