Django: Broken backs and broken spirits

Tarantino recreates a South that has been built upon the broken backs and spirits of African American salves in Django Unchained. This film captures all the anger and hostility that makes all white cringe in fear of the depths of depravity humans can bend to, in their own pursuits of prosperity and fortune. There is an amazing love story that parallels a German fairy tale, based on a princess that shares the name of Django's wife. This love story is the centerpiece of second act of the film. This love story is saturated in blood and keeps the audience screaming for more blood and more vengeance. This film is everything you would expect from Tarantino. It is gritty, well written and extremely violent. As you would demand, as a film lover and Tarantino fan, the film comes with detail driven characters that come with a large amount of wit and charisma showcased by artfully crafted dialogue. To this movie goer, the darkness of this period in history, two years prior to the civil war, is paralleled by Tarantino's own dark themes used throughout the film. Samuel L. Jackson plays an African American that has become so sensitized by the violence perpetrated upon other slaves that he has actually begun to take part in the cruelty for his own sense of sick amusement. This idea gives rise to a concept that illustrates the "if you can't beat them, join them" mentality. It reminded me of the discussion of assimilation found in the play "Raisin in the Sun". Tarantino's message about race inequity and inner race racism is heard and validated through out the final scenes of the film.