Django Unchained is one of my favorite movies, a movie set in a time in american history that is often not looked at critical enough. Quentin Tarantino does a spectacular job of making the civil war era not only funny and intriguing, but absolutely terrifying in the fact that that is how humans acted towards one another. The characters completely drive the plot with their unique personalities and wonderful chemistry between eachother. The satirical movie is filled with such realism at times that it does feel real.
The movie is also riddled with metaphors, The story of Django Unchained is basically a re-enactment of the German Story of Brunhilde, Which is referenced many times through out the movie. Django trains as a bounty hunter and travels through a southern hell to retrieve his wife Brunhilde, who is owned by a one Mr. Candy. Just as in the german tale, A man trained as a knight to retrieve the princess Brunhilde ant the top of a mountain surrounded in fire, and protected by a dragon.
Django Unchained is a beautiful mixture of spaghetti western, and classical Quentin Tarantino action movies. Filled with Gun fights and tricky situations, storytelling and romance, comedy and horror, Django Unchained is a very well rounded movie. Also a personal favorite.
