THE CONTROVERSY OF DJANGO UNCHAINED

or i should say the "hypocritcal controvery" about the best movie of the year.

for me DJANGO UNCHAINED is one of the most clever/original films created in a long time. this film makes audiences uncomfortble in the absolute best way.. it forces one to feel where they are at about~racism,censorship, american history, slavery, crime, violence, guns, comedy and acting. 

 

Although Tarantino has said about Mandingo fighting, "I was always aware those things existed," there is no historical evidence that slave owners ever staged gladiator-like fights to the death between male slaves like that depicted in the movie.  There are only undocumented rumors that such fights were staged.  A novel (1957) and a film(1975) were made about exceptionally strong Mandingo slaves trained to fight each other for gambling.

Writing in The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb observed that Tarantino's occasional historical elasticity sometimes worked to the film's advantage. "There are moments," Cobb wrote, "where this convex history works brilliantly, like when Tarantino depicts the Ku Klux Klan 

a decade prior to its actual formation in order to thoroughly ridicule its members’ (literally) veiled racism." The marauding masked group depicted in the film were known as "The Regulators" and were depicted as spiritual forebears of the later post-civil war KKK.