Django Unchained, slavery on the silver screen

  

Django Unchained is a 2012 movie directed by Quentin Tarantino.

The events of the movie happen 2 years before the Civil War.

Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave and he is freed by Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on the condition he helps him to find the Brittle brothers, a condition that the slave accepts.

Dr King Schultz is a bounty hunter and he has to bring the Brittle brothers dead or alive to the authorities but he doesn't know their faces, that's when he needs Django because he was a slave in their lands.

During their journey to find them King Schultz asks the ex-slave about what he will do after the end of their contract and Django answers that he will free his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washinghton). King Schultz is surprised by the Germanic consonance of her name.

Before the duo get into the lands where the Brittles are King tell Django what to do or don't do during missions but Django, in his rage, didn't listen and killed one of the Brittles and see the other one a far  in the cotton field and tell King where he is when he is coming in panic. They have issues with the land owner but got out of the situation by being more cunning than him and his men.

After that King offers Django to help him to free Broomhilda because Django is the first slave he frees and also because Django's wife has a name that makes him remember his homeland.

They spend a whole winter together in which King taught Django to shoot and they made money together by continuing their job of bounty hunter.

After the cold days they went to Greenville, where Django was bought, to see in the registers who bought Broomhilda; someone called Calvin Candie bought her.

The duo met this Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a rich landowner who loves watching his slaves wrestling. They get his trust, or are trying to because Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) the steward of Mr Candie doesn't feel them.

In the meanwhile the duo have a chance to speak in private with Broomhilda and tell her their plan.

After that Stephen finds out the plan he tells his master in private during the middle of a dinner in which the duo was about to conclude the sale of one of Candie's slaves with Brommhilda in it.

When Candie gets back he gets angry and only sales the male slave to Schultz. After signing the contract the German kills the slave owner, after that the southerner tried to force him to make a handshake.Unluckily Scultz also gets killed.

Django was arrested but he ran away and went back to Candie's place to get his wife and explode the manor.

This movie, even though the events are fake, shows well how slavery and mentalities in the South were at the time.

Some scenes trigger me because I don't understand how mankind went to slave some people because of their skin color.

Of course, like in most of Tarantino's movies (to not say all of them) there's a chaotic amount of blood for the few people killed (in fact I love it but I know it is excessive so it makes me laugh).

5/5 The story is well written, we find back the historical issues as they were supposed to be. The slow moments are not boring, they are here to show the development of the characters and the development of the story.

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