Anyone who knows me well should be aware of how strongly I feel about WWII, how much I hate the Nazi, and how proud I am to be part Jewish. I believe that all my closest friends have seen my show in LA where I clearly talked about it, and expressed my feelings. Watching Inglorious Basterds for me was simply glorious.
I often watch movies. Theatre, films, scripts, and acting has been fascinating me since a young age. Tonight I finally saw I movie worth watching. Quentin Tarantino has confirmed to me be once again to be a genius. From the very beginning to the end I was fully entertained, the tension was on a constant build up, and my favorite part was the unpredictability! I absolutely am annoyed when I can predict the end of a movie during the first five minutes. It surely didn’t happen tonight. I sat on the edge of my seat, I furiously ate my pop-corn while following this intriguing tale full of tension.
The film is divided into chapters describing the stories of different people who at some point will all become the part of a big puzzle. Tarantino has done a wonderful job mixing as usual kick ass action, irony, dark humor, a brilliant cast, and as his signature a hot blonde girl who is afraid of nothing. His attention to detail is one of the ingredients I admire the most in his films. At the very beginning of this flick, during the Chapter I, there is a scene where the French farmer is being interviewed by a Nazi Investigator. He lights up his pipe, and throws the match in an ashtray right next to the Nazi hat with a big swastika on it. That detail was so clever. I found it to be very symbolic. All the characters are incredibly well designed, from Brad Pitt playing the American redneck Lieutenant, Christoph Waltz the Nazi Col. Hans Landa, to the wonderful Mélanie Laurent playing the Jewish Shosanna Dreyfus .
I don’t want to give away the story nor the plot. I do highly suggest to go watch it. However be ready for a lot blood! Another thing I absolutely loved is that a good 75% of the film is with subtitles, it’s like watching a foreign movie, I have always thought that it would be so brilliant to make an American movie played with foreign actors and in native languages to really give it a sense of reality. Tarantino really made this come true.
I applaud Quentin Tarantino (how many times have I typed his name by now?), the whole cast, the story, the choreography and the beautiful ending!
