I'm taking a break from studying for mid-terms to comment about a worry of mine: Quentin Tarantino's new film. 'Inglorious Bastards' is a remake of a 70's war film I know nothing about about. Tarantino's version concerns eight or so Jewish American soldiers in Nazi occupied France who are out to maim and brutally kill German infantry. Apparently Nazis didn't hate the Jews enough already. The preview, available on IMDB, does not look promising. We get blood spattered inter titles about how war will look different through the eyes of Tarantino and a Brad Pitt monologue concerning the mission at hand. There are two possibilities here: 1.) the movie is a shallow shell with only the desire to showcase torture a la Eli Roth's 'Hostel'. Roth, amusingly, is in 'Bastards'. 2.) The preview showcases the film as nothing more than violence because that will sell better. This is possible since the film seems like it could have something to say concerning war and what humans do to each other under the umbrella of 'moral killing'. Does the title just refer to the eight or so men sent on this brutal Nazi scalping mission, or (gulp) to anyone who takes up arms against his fellow human for something as intangible and opinionated as Glory? I have faith in Tarantino, but this will be his first "serious" film since Jackie Brown. Hopefully he's not fallen permanently into the groove of tongue-in-cheek homages like 'Kill Bill' and 'Death Proof' but only time will tell-August 21st to be exact.
By Tom.
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