Monday, September 28, 2009
Commentary on Tarantino [Mike Potemra]
I just got the October issue of Commentary, and was very impressed with Frederic Raphael’s negative review (unfortunately, not online) of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. I admire Tarantino’s craft immensely: At his best, as in Reservoir Dogs, he can break our hearts with his broken bodies. But more often, there’s something ethically troubling about his type of aestheticism, impressive as it is. Raphael, in his witty and caustic short essay, takes Inglourious Basterds to task for its failures of verisimilitude — and this in a broad sense: The film doesn’t just get history wrong (on this, I am much more indulgent than Raphael), it misrepresents the basic moral issues at stake in the history.
09/28 02:45 PM
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