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Thursday's Movie Review - Inglorious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino’s latest outing starts in Nazi occupied France in 1941 where a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Walz). Narrowly escaping the massacre with her life, she gets a chance for revenge years later when German war hero, Fredrick Zoller, develops a crush on her (unaware of her identity) and arranges a movie premiere for the Fuhrer at the theatre she now owns. The premiere also attracts the attention of British intelligence and the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the merciless Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). As the Basterds make their plans, they are unaware of Shoshanna’s planned revenge, while Hans Landa is closing in on both Shoshanna and the Basterds, threatening to derail the whole mission.

This is probably the most straightforward, linear story, Tarantino has offered so far, which worked for me — who isn’t a big Tarantino fan —  but may be a little disappointing for those expecting something out of the ordinary. On the upside, the film offers some wonderful characters — the sweet, but vengeful Shoshanna, the ruthless Aldo Raine, and the diabolical Hans Landa, who is probably the most amoral, evil character to grace the screen in a very long time. Brilliantly acted, the mostly European cast speaking their native languages (subtitled) give the film an air of authenticity, despite the liberal disregard for historical fact that gets increasingly absurd as the film nears its climax.

There are a few jarring moments (the previously mentioned twist in history being a case in point), like the appearance of Mike Myers playing it straight as a British Colonel and a more than a few rather pretentious and overly-long scenes where the characters go on and on about German cinema in the 1920s. One gets the feeling Tarantino is showing off, just a little, to prove he knows his stuff, and the scenes quickly started to get on my nerves.

There were a couple of other Tarantino affectations, like writing the names of characters on the screen with a light pen instead of introducing them as part of the narrative, which I thought was not only unnecessary, but downright lazy, and couple of clips relating the back-story of individual Basterds that were kind of fun, but felt like they ought to be introduced by the guy who does the Pushing Daisies voice-overs and they should have started with “the facts are these…”

But they are minor complaints really. The film is brutal and absurdly violent, but nobody who goes to a Tarantino film really expects anything less. The dialogue (except in the scenes full of boring exposition) is generally clever and believable, and in the end, despite the high body count — another trademark Tarantino device — you do get the sense of a everything ending the way it should.

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