Let me just start off by saying, I love this Movie. Inglorious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino’s fantastical, outrageous, frustrating but ultimately audacious rewriting of history. In one point of the Movie, Nazi Colonel Hans Landa, played by Christoph Waltz, asks, "What shall the history books read?" Well, no history book is going to read this version of World War II.
The Film is divided into 5 chapters and chapter one begins in Nazi-Occupied France. Landa, known as the Jew hunter, waltzes into a quiet farmhouse to flush out hidden Jews. After drinking two glasses of milk, Landa, quietly, chillingly, calls his men in and has them shoot a Jewish family hiding under the floorboards. Only the daughter, Shoshana, escapes.
Chapter 2 introduces us to the Basterds, a group of American-Jews who are brutal avengers. Led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt, the Basterds pulverize Nazis by killing as many as they can, in the most hideous way possible, and then scalping them.
This movie is really brutal and I found it troublesome is that the violence has no moral values. Even though the Indian censors have edited out two and a half minutes of the gory scalping scenes, there are several grisly moments. The good guys, in this case the basterds, are as viciously cruel as the bad guys. In fact, there's one scene in the movie in which one of the Basterds, clubs a Nazi soldier to death.
Inglorious Basterds is a very violent but yet a very brilliant movie. It reminds me of shades of the Dirty Dozen (just a higher octane version of it). It has no emotional core but Tarantino’s mastery of the medium won’t let you look away. You will either love the movie or you will hate it. But don’t miss it. You might get scalped if you do.
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