“What’s your name soldier?”. “No trust, no deal” with Tarantino

Do you remember the joke with Titanic and Bruce Willis? What would have happened if Bruce Willis had played in Titanic? He would have saved the boat, the people… and that will be the end of the story and of the history. Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is quite similar – a good joke, with great scenes, shot well, with small, but complete roles. The war ends up one year earlier, in Tarantino style or in an American style in which the good wins and the revenge takes place before “the end”.

I liked the movie, but I cannot say that I felt completely comfortable laughing at Tarantino’s joke. It is still a “sensitive” joke about the cruelty of the world war II, and what did the Germans or the Jews think about this? And shouldn’t we condemn the “tooth for tooth” revenge?

Revenge? In the movie, the Jew woman,who planned the diabolic event, to burn the Fuhrer and hundreds Nazis, is punished, so she gets killed. Then the Jews’ suffer is well and respectfully treated and mentioned in the first chapter of the movie, and then this side of the war is not “touched” anymore. In addition, the movie doesn’t speak about Germans, it speaks about Nazis, and still the Germans are presented as very well educated men, who at least speak more languages than Americans. The movie is ironic with the Americans, but still it presents, in a very synthetic and funny way, how they got involved in the war and how they came to clean the European “shit”, following their democratic values.

All the characters are funny as some caricatures. Brad Pitt? He plays a good role, and he understood that the movie is a joke and he loves to play a crazy man. And he speaks a very good Italian. Lol.

I searched the Internet and I found out that the film critics were not so impressed by Tarantino’s movie. Some of them say that he is in a bad shape, that the movie has no action, that the roles are too small, some things are artificial and exaggerated (such as Brad Pitt’s accent), that the movie is too cruel or not cruel enough, that the European actors got only unimportant roles, etc. I say that it was a well built joke, and it has to be seen only from this perspective. So, relax and enjoy it and trust Tarantino.