Comments on: Lots of Spoilers in This Review of Django Unchained

By: Dan O.

Dan O. — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:42:35 +0000

The central take away is that time after time Tarantino gives people something to talk about. Which is always a good thing. Nice review.

By: Pseudoplotinus

Pseudoplotinus — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:18:01 +0000

Jim, nice use of Girard. We should all start boning up on Girard’s work as our culture is now full stride into its Neo-Pagan turn: Tarentino being an excellent example as he seems to have a knack for understanding the Heraclitean subtext in B-Movie Genre.

On a slightly related note, it’s about time someone on this blog did an analysis on that other film this year dealing with the challenging relationship of violence and civilization known as Zero-Dark-Thirty, especially since it is easily one of the best directed films this year and yet Bigelow was overlooked ostensibly because she was willing to portray what our entertainment (and political) culture refuses to acknowledge:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscars-2013-zero-dark-thirty-critics-notebook-20130111,0,3300308.story

By: paul seaton

paul seaton — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:23:31 +0000

I love the use of the Hegelian phrase “bad infinity”! I even used it in a recent comment. Welcome aboard, John.

By: Carl Eric Scott

Carl Eric Scott — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:50:13 +0000

yep, “Minor Swing” is the one. playing the guitar backwards does wonders… I guess one reason to appreciate Woody Allen movies, is that he puts in Django into his soundtracks.

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Lots of Spoilers in This Review of Django Unchained | cathlick.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:06:28 +0000

[...] So let’s do it Peter Lawler style by the numbers— 1. I saw Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained today. What I expected is what I saw, except unlike Inglorious Basterds, Django didn’t Source: Postmodern Conservative [...]

By: Jim Ross

Jim Ross — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:54:46 +0000

To cleanse the palate, might I suggest two books?

Violence Unveiled (Gil Bailie)
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Renee Girard)

These books provide a profoundly disturbing, and deeply Christian, analysis of the nature of violence. Both of them, I believe, have something to say about the structure of violence in these films.