DisasterPeace7 t1_j2buajs wrote
It was clearly a Revenge story about a man trying to save his wife, now obviously if he could have saved some of the other ones he would have and he did at the end when he let all the other black people leave except for Stephen , but like I said it's just an excellently told Revenge tale about a man trying to save his wife
degustibus t1_j2d0sh2 wrote
Imagining Django to feel great solidarity with people based on skin color is anachronistic, not in keeping with the character, not in alignment with his primary motive nor his mentor's identity, and frankly racist. Just because strangers have similar color skin doesn't make them your family or friends. It was a tough world. Django knew he couldn't really do much about something as vast as slavery, but he couldn't live without trying to rescue his wife.
In actual history there is the inspiring story of John Brown and his attempt to free many slaves and start an uprising. For those unfamiliar with his story please read up on him. Historians say that his efforts though a tragic failure at the time helped insure that the Civil War and freedom would come sooner than later.
EverybodyKnowWar t1_j2ecm0z wrote
>feel great solidarity with people based on skin color
No one is suggesting it would be based on skin color. It would be based on the fact that he had been a slave.
The title of the movie is a hint.
Learned_Response t1_j2evpwg wrote
This is one of the dumbest takes I've read on this sub and they are always around issues of race. Black people under slavery which enslaved other blacks feeling racial solidarity would be anachronistic because... John Brown existed? Where do you even start unpacking that
DoomGoober t1_j2dt2i1 wrote
Which makes it an excellent contrast piece to Inglorious Basterds. They are both historic revenge fantasies but one is deeply personal while the other is about a bunch of men on military suicide mission (but also personal for some of them.)
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