This film should be called "How the War should have been won". It's the first
film in which Quentin Tarantino rewrote history. It's a fictional film, but it
features authentic historical characters, such as Adolf Hitler. The film shows
Hitler dying in France in 1944, a year before his real world death. Tarantino's most
recent film,
"Once upon a time in Hollywood", also rewrites history by showing Sharon Tate survive the attack by the
Manson Family.
So who kills Hitler? It's a joint effort. There are two plots running in
parallel. One is the fighting group called the Bastards, eight Jewish soldiers
led by Aldo the Apache (Brad Pitt). It's Aldo's right hand man Donny Donowitz
(Eli Roth) who fires the bullets that kill Hitler. When you look at his face
it seems like he isn't just acting, he's really enjoying killing Hitler. But
Hitler wouldn't have survived anyway. He's locked in a cinema that's being
burnt down by Emmanuelle Mimieux, the cinema's owner who's secretly Jewish.
Aldo's Bastards and Emmanuelle don't meet, and they aren't even aware of one
another's existence.
As I've mentioned many times before, I consider the opening scene in a French
farmhouse to be the best scene ever filmed. It's perfect. It's slow and
intense with seemingly harmless conversation between the French dairy farmer
and the SS officer Hans Landa. In fact, the whole film moves slowly, and there
are only occasional short bursts of action.
This is a film I can watch again and again and never get bored. The same is
true of all of Quentin Tarantino's films. If you haven't watched it yet, what
are you waiting for? Please don't shy away from it with excuses like "I don't
like war films". This isn't a normal war film, which should be obvious as soon
as the background music begins. The music sounds like it comes directly from a
spaghetti western.
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