This is a western type movie, that has a lot to do with slavery. Blacks are sold and purchased to whites for whatever the whites may want. Leonardo Dicaprio is a wealthy slave trader type person. He is first introduced in the film with 2 black men fighting each other very brutally. The movie uses the word Nigger a million times. The movie can be very uncomfortable to watch.
Jamie Foxx is our main character. I wouldn't really call him a hero, seeing as how the movie is very brutal and doesn't really have good things to say about white people or black people. But, he is a slave and ends up being purchased by Christoph Waltz's character, who is a bounty hunter. He buys Foxx to help track down 3 men. It is later discovered that Dicaprio has Foxx's wife and she is being mistreated. So Foxx uses his new bounty hunter and fighting skills to go and save her.
So, it is good to see some of the slavery being handled and stopped in the film, but the whole movie is rough, and they really overdid it on, well, everything, but mainly the violence. People would be shot in the leg and it would explode. People would get shot in the head, and there would be a fountain of blood.
All in all, maybe worth a watch once, but I personally don't need to see it again.
1 comment:
This was a tougher one to watch, but very Tarantino, I found the mandingo fights harder to watch than anything else in this one. I guess I will probably agree with you on everything on this site, we seem to have similar tastes in movies.
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