Tuesday, January 14, 2020

All the streets are silent

Quentin Tarantino's latest, in spite of shitloads of characters, is really about two people and the Charles Manson Family Cult. These two people; first off, there's Rick Dalton (Leonard DiCaprio) who is a past star actor finding out he's now 'slightly more useless each day' and there's Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), the former's awfully cool stunt double. In the movie, there are also well known actors like Al Pacino, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsh, Michael Madsen and Damian Lewis, but they are cast just extras, merely dipping their feet in the water, aren't really bringing anything to the show, replaceable show-offs. For instance, Michael Madsen's own car got more screentime than the actor himself. But that's part of the charm. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood is a good fucking movie, trademark Tarantino entertainment altho at times times it felt like there were just bits and pieces plastered in together to masquerade a movie. Dunno. Probably the film geek Tarantino does it all just to amuse himself. Lots of things - amazing things - are there to keep your mind occupied, proper eye candy shit. And the ending is one of the craziest - and coolest - endings I have ever seen.

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