From Bob Cesca’s review of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained:

“The abomination of slavery in the United States and especially the psychopathy of slave owners is what will lastingly stick with me about the movie, and I’m strangely grateful for it. I’m grateful to have been reminded of the shocking truth that half of this nation as recently as 150 years ago treated African Americans as livestock to be abused and exploited however they pleased, and why, until 1861, the other half did nothing to stop it. In the end, perhaps Tarantino sought to make us all want to be Django and Dr. Schultz — to inflict justice and retribution upon the purveyors of that loathsome, nightmarish endeavor.”

I felt like I was watching something more than a gory western but would not have been able to explain why. Mr. Cesca’s review captures what I was thinking and feeling about this movie.