Django Unchained (決殺令/黑殺令/被解救的姜戈) is an 2012 film. The movie stars Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz. The supporting cast include Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, and Walton Goggins. The film is also directed by Quentin Tarantino, the modern day pulp director. The movie is based a couple of years before the start of the American Civil War.
Django is a slave. Schultz is a bounty hunter. Django is the last person to have seen three brothers Schultz is after. Schultz takes Django from his captures and makes him a free man if he helps him get his bounty. Schultz feels compassion for Django and teaches him the bounty hunter trade. Django however wants to get his wife back, who has been sold to the Candyland plantation. Django and Schultz will need a great game plan to get his wife back from Candyland.
The movie was bloody and seemed very authentic to the era. Even though True Grit takes place decades after, this movie had the same "western" realism. Django does a little more showboating, but it moves the story along. The movie includes both joy and tragedy at the same time. The hyped use of the "n" word was not exaggerated. I was a little taken back by its heavy use, but I did expect it to happen.
A bloody, violent, and typical QT film. Watch it for the gritty western realism and its historical take.
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