Django Unchained is the highly charged exploitation film from director Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Fox, Christoph Waltz, and Leonardo DiCaprio, which pays homage to the 1966 Italian spaghetti western with the same named protagonist. Tarantino, fearlessly and unapologetic, paints a controversial time in American history to portray a heart wrenching and graphic revenge story fueled by true love while testifying to the endurance of the human spirit in the most dire of circumstances.
Tarantino takes the traditional heroes journey and sets it against a time that not many directors are willing to tackle, especially when including moments of African American slavery rife with humor and purely exploitative and often gratuitous violence. But it is all in good faith as the viewer trusts the director and actors' nervy head first dive into a project that oozes with passion.
The landscapes are beautiful, direction is motivated and stunning, the soundtrack is sublime, Christoph Waltz is a shoe in for another Oscar nomination but he'll have to wrestle Leonardo DiCaprio for the win as his portrayal of the evil plantation owner Monsieur Candie still gives me heart palpitations.
What a treat to watch a film unafraid of offending and is quite frankly one of the best of 2012 and is a project I think Quentin Tarantino should be very proud of.
