Debate Continues to Rage Over 'Django Unchained' as It Gallops Past $64 Million at the Box Office

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• Julio | Sat Jan 05 04:20:40 EST 2013Reply

  It looks on track and I think the discussion of racism can be given through this movie but always telling a love story.

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• Long range | Mon Dec 31 14:33:14 EST 2012Reply

  I found Django to be typical Tarantino. It's bold, it has a bone to pick , it's fantasy, it's controversial. It's also Art. We are entitled to love it or bash it as we see fit. If it inspires honest dialogue about where we are as a culture, that's a plus.

• nimorphi | Mon Dec 31 12:04:57 EST 2012Reply

  So why is it ok to show blacks being enslaved and tourtured (which happened) in a movie and not call them the n-word (which also happened) in the same movie?

• THEMOREYOUKNOW | Mon Dec 31 21:44:23 EST 2012

  Because the film is not grounded in reality at all, nor does it purport itself to be. It's as laughable as Tarantino claiming that his use of the n-word in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction is "real", as if any one of those characters exists, or resemble people that exist. People compare his films to porn so often because, like porn, it just isn't like that at all. If you want to know what sex is really like, watch a mumblecore film; you'll find then that it's not enlightening, nor does it warrant any viewership whatsoever. Certain levels of truth enhance meaning, as does the extrapolation of history or experience into an imaginative story. However, Django is neither imaginative or a story -- it is pure fantasy, a string of set pieces, exhaustively self-referential. It is so outlandish that, yes, it's probably going to offend people. In the Internet Age, offensive material gets blown out of proportion, but the argument of, "He's trying to evoke you" is useless and will go nowhere, and unfalsifiable. Even then, if he is trying to evoke, that gives no merit to the film. If he made a film of himself jacking off, someone could say the same exact thing. I personally also don't think he is trying to evoke me, or he would have publicly expressed an intention to do so, as is his public responsibility as an artist dealing with a sensitive subject, but all he's ever said is, I want to make my Spaghetti Western. He could have made any version of a Spaghetti Western, but he chose to make this.