Yeah, I think to appreciate it most, you either have to be familiar with the Manson killings or to have been alive when the movie takes place. A lot of people today don't understand just how much Tate's murder unnerved people. This was before serial killers were well known by the general public, and it helped put America in a bad mood, leading to the shitastic, cynical place we're in now. This movie was almost like a fairy tale, asking what would have happened if that hadn't happened.
I know enough to know that in real life Tate was murdered and Tarantino switched that around as he did in Inglorious Basterds but I still found it to be boring fluff, like somebody else said tho perhaps that'll change on repeat viewings for me
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I'll be interested to see Tarantino's thought process on it and why he chose to do that. His plots are usually very intricate. I'm guessing it's his critique on relationships in Hollywood. Everyone being detached from one another and very few meaningful personal relationships. Lots of disingenuous compliments and fakery.
The soundtrack, while brilliant, was also very jarring as it hard cut between 3 and 4 songs one after the other. Like it is reflecting how short lived times in the character's lives are as they go from one job to another.
Sometimes it felt very self indulgent. Like, ok Quentin, you love old movie posters. We don't need shots of them every 5 seconds.
Still don't know whether I liked it or not.
All I can say is that it was very weird.
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What bugs me is some of the critiques. Okay I can understand why some might not like the way Bruce Lee is portrayed, but I've seen more than one article that cries over the violence against the women at the end.
There was a guy there as well, it wasn't just women. And these weren't normal women they came with the intent to commit murder and thus deserved their fate. I can't get why someone would cry over violent would be murderers ending up meeting violent fates themselves.
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Yep, the brutality of the actual murders is still worse than what we see in the movie.
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The film is an unadulterated ode that only Tarantino can make, one that blends cynicism with reverence to form a portrait where beautiful faces are never at odds with grime, alcohol and giddy murder.
Definitely will be better for those that are familiar with Sharon Tate and the Manson murders, even though a large portion of the film is not about that.
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