In the Theatre with Kevin Murphy - Inglourious Basterds - Universal Pictures

A few months ago i reviewed a film that felt so offensive and crewed to the German culture it made me want to burn it in the kindle but then i realized the video store would ban me for life for destroying one of their movies. Most recently i reviewed a film that is more offensive but makes much better sense of central European culture between the greatest global conflict in recorded history, from the man who brought you the graphics of Pulp Fiction comes Inglorious Bastards by Quentin Tarantino.

Set in German controlled France, this movie is about two things with one overlooking the other; Closure and Revenge” its pretty hard to tell which overlaps the other in this bloody war. The movie sets up the Bastards a not so secret group of Nazi killers who are into one thing and one thing only "Killing Nazi's". This gains the attention of British Forces who give the bastards the assignment of killing Hitler and all his Nazi elites meanwhile a survivor of a Nazi siege has her own plans of revenge in the Bastards kill zone.

Going in to this movie i was thinking, this is going to be another pointless war film based on a real war where western forces lose a small battle, but coming out i thought that wow i wasnt expecting that and just to clarify none of this really happened during World War II its all from Terantino's imagination and you can look in every history book and you wont find any of what you saw in this movie. The first thing ide like to talk about is how Tarantino directs this film in comparison to Pulp Fiction. In Pulp Fiction everything is moving around and its hard to keep track of the story but in a small way all the stories connect in one way or another which is why Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies of the 1990's. In this movie Tarantino treats the movie like he would a book by splitting it into five chapters and the movie has great prescience like a book would and how Tarantino waits for the right moment to strike in a scene.

What i liked and left concern for was the ending of the movie which i don't want to ruin for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. The ending is defiantly something you would not find in any history book or hardly anything in your fiction section after 1945. My grandfather was a history teacher so if he saw this movie i think he would get an offended or puzzled reaction. What I like and is interesting about this conclusion is that its set up the way it would have been written as propaganda against Nazism during world war II by western forces or eastern rebellions to better aid emotional aid to leaders and soldiers. This has happened for centuries and even pre-dates William Shakespeare who was well known for doing this. Ive noticed this in plays, old movies, cartoons and many fox original movies which ive all panned, and because of this it gains support for soldiers and political leaders during war which gives the soldiers a sense of inner victory and wanting the war to end the way they see it on screen or on stage. If their is one other aspect i liked about this movie its to my surprise compliment Brad Pitt on his solid and hilarious performance. Usually i don't like Brad Pitt because he just seems like one of those stars that is just famous for being famous because he gets so much attention for being with one celb after another or because he's one of the sexiest men on screen and doesn't take the risk of taking something new and challenging and when you take risks in this business it could destroy or save your career, i would even consider he beeligiblee for an Oscar much like Robert Downey Jr from last year in his case. So if you wanna see a twist on history i recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of Quentin Tarantino or just wants to question his integrity.

My Rating: 3.5/4 Shamrocks