Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is not only a great film but the greatest display of liberalism in movie theaters this past year.The film isn't political at all, but it's the greatest display of
To those whose blood is boiling or eyes are rolling, I don't use that word to refer to the political left in modern politics. Their use of that word was always illegitimate, and their ownership of it has expired.
Liberalism is exactly what its name suggests: a belief that men and women should be free—and therefore equal. And that is a far more fundamental belief than any racial or political one. The film isn't political at all, though its undertones bring to mind gun control, an issue made salient by a recent national tragedy—and its only coherent reading is that when access to guns is unrestricted, tyranny cannot survive.
"Django" is about liberalism and tyranny, and the era of American slavery was a perfect illustration of it. There was no law from the government directly limiting the freedom of slaves; it was on a human level—one man telling another, "I own you," and that becoming the established social order.*And at this point Django shoots Ezra Dulis.
*One may gather from this that unrestricted free markets are bad.
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Gun control, you say?
Moreover, Tracy asserts in radio interviews and on his memoryholeblog.com. that trained "crisis actors" may have been employed by the Obama administration in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the event's true purpose: gun control.
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I am old enough to remember when these clowns went out of their way to make "liberal" a bad word.
Now that us libs have started working to take it back, they want to say we aren't entitled to it?
And at this point Django shoots Ezra Dulis.
Typical Hollywood-style happy ending.
I see the conservative formula for discerning conservative values in entertainment remains "I like this. Therefore it's conservative."
There was no law from the government directly limiting the freedom of slaves
This is such an insane thing to come away from the movie with. The Waltz character is scrupulous in what slave-trading he has to do: he complies with the law to stay the officer of it. There's a lot of other detail around legal practices and documentation of such in the film.
It's also an insane thing to come away from, um, HISTORY with, but there you go.
I am old enough to remember when these clowns went out of their way to make "liberal" a bad word.
Now that us libs have started working to take it back, they want to say we aren't entitled to it?
The goalposts, they keep moving...
I see the conservative formula for discerning conservative values in entertainment remains "I like this. Therefore it's conservative."
I don't even think it's that- it's a lot of people like this, therefore it's conservative.
Liberalism is exactly what its name suggests: a belief that men and women should be free—and therefore equal.
Those zany Libertarians, calling themselves that when they could have saved several syllables calling themselves "Liberals" and everyone would have known what they meant...
Ezra Dulis has the kind of mug that would make my father say, "I wonder if his face hurts."
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