Movie ...Django

It's amazing, but I have never seen a movie which has generated such diversely opposite reviews. I have heard some who hated it and some who loved it. I for one enjoyed it ! Particularly the climatic ending. I also loved the humor which was interspersed throughout.

Yes, there were parts of it I had rather not seen. Two of them come to mind:

1. The wrestling match between the two large men
2. The scene with the dogs.

Personally, I have grown to be immune to the utterance of the N word in movies. The fact is, the only times you hear it used in real life is by our own people - particularly our young people !
Some say that they have reclaimed the word. I don't know about that, but it always feels demeaning to hear our own people referring to each other as such. Sorry, but I'm from the old school.

I've been in this country for 31 yrs, 4 months and 9 days and have never been called the N word to my face by any white person - or anyone else for that matter. That doesn't mean that they didn't do it behind my back. Has anyone else had a different experience?

I liked Django for a whole bunch of reasons among them the climatic ending. The slavery angle was interesting, but since it was expected I didn't open my eyes wide in surprise. The acting was incredibly good and the comedy well placed. However, I must admit that I love action movies which keeps you at the edge of your seat - like the Bourne trilogy, Kill Bill, Mission Impossible etc. Django didn't disappoint in that category. Also I like all Quentin Tarantino movies - Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards etc.

I would recommend you see Django if you haven't already. Then you can form your own opinion for which there will be many in your corner irrespective of what it is.

BTW, does anyone find it strange that there wasn't a single sex scene?

Sammy

I saw the movie on Friday night and like you Bourru, I could not watch those two parts. I found them highly offensive. However, if anyone has read anything about the life of a slave in Mississipi at the peak of the slave trade, then the movie represents an realistic interpretation of that life. I cannot understand why people are offended by the use of the word 'nigger'. WTF..that's what we were called and that's how we addressed. I thought black people in America were past that misnomer and could find humour in the use of the word in this the 21st century. The acting was superb.

I saw the movie Lincoln before I saw Django. Maybe the one set me up for the "indigestion" of the other. The N----- word used in both cases landed with similar impact on one's conscience. The difference? More politics-cum-hate in Lincoln than in Django. So racism was portrayed from the top (government) down (street). In Django, it was from the bottom up. Both had fabulous lines of humor/ comedy. However, each gave me a glimpse (again) into what it must've been like to live a Life as a Lower Animal Being (slave), back in those days. Then, fast forward, I applauded folks like Richard Pryor for eventually deleting the N-word from his language on and off the stage, after a trip to Africa; folks who pushed through Adult (female) Suffrage etc., etc., --------------------------------------- tomorrow is Inauguration Day in D.C.. Yup! That is one longa** unending hyphen right there, 'tween birth and death of racism.
The N-word is still an ugly one.No big deal! Go see both movies. Both are quite entertaining in their own way, if not "edutaining" in unique ways.

We should be looking at the movie in the context of its setting -- in the South, during a period just before the Civil War, when slavery was the norm.

In that setting, the word "Nigger" was the expression used to stigmatize and dehumanize black people. So we should expect that any movie set in that period would use that expression. [Of course, Tarantino normally does everything in excess.]

Similarly, I read "Tom Sawyer" in 4th form, where Mark Twain liberally put the "Nigger" word in the mouth of his characters -- both for realism and to expose the hypocrisy of te white racists of his time.

We should therefore judged the film "D'Jango" on its merits. Superb acting, realism, good story line, and thought provoking. [and once again, those of us who have watched all of Tarantino's previous films, should be accustomed to his usual excess.]

It is paradoxical today that only some misguided so-called black people [most of them with sagging pants showing their dirty "kalson"] who used the "nigger" word. In their misguided belief that they are "reclaiming" the word, those idiots are the ones perpetrating blaxexploitation today.

Those same idiots also refer to their mothers, sisters, and daugthers as "ho" and "bitch". Those (c)rappers are the real niggers today.

I saw Lincoln this weekend .....great movie as Colly said some great qoutes. Imagine being equal only legally. A lack of compromise and slavery could still be operating something congress could learn from .What irony when you consider that the Democrats at the time was the party of NO on this issue. Eh bien.
After Django I was sanitized to the N word. No worries.