Flore's Thoughts

                                 directed by Quentin Tarantino

No, I didn’t spell it wrong, this is how Tarantino chose to name his latest movie.

Inglourious Basterds is a bloody parody of World War II. A team of American Jews, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), are on a killing spree in a Nazi occupied France. They are killing and scalping German soldiers and, together with an actress, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), they plan the murder of all the head German officers, including Hitler, at a movie premiere. Their plan gets intersected with the actions of a Jewish woman, named Shosanna (Melanie Laurent). She owns the cinema where the premiere is going to take place and has planned on burning everything to the ground during the movie as a revenge for her family, who was killed by Germans soldiers.

Col. Hand Landa(Christoph Waltz), the Jew Hunter, is the most interesting character of the movie. The dialogues he takes part of are always filled with a subtle humor and intelligent remarks and reflections. He ends up helping with the mass murder of all the important German personalities and officers in exchange for American citizenship.

I didn’t quite like Brad Pitt with that really thick southern american accent and the hillbilly personality is not something that fits him all that well. But i can’t say his character wasn’t a bit funny, especially when trying to speak italian with that accent.

Overall this is what you would expect from Tarantino… explicit violence, a lot of blood, sarcastic remarks, parody, a bit of dark humor, though I wasn’t all that impressed. I thought he dragged some parts of the story way too much and at times i found it slightly boring. I did like the subject and some of the subtle sarcastic remarks, mostly made by Hans Landa.

And one more thing i liked is that, at the end, everybody dies, well almost everyone, but still, you’d think that at least Hitler would escape.

A few quotes:

Lt. Aldo Raine: You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, Business is a-boomin’.

Col. Hans Landa: What a tremendously hostile world that a rat must endure. Yet not only does he survive, he thrives. Because our little foe has an instinct for survival and preservation second to none… And that Monsieur is what a Jew shares with a rat.