Not so funny after all (dynamics of good movie making)



It's been about three months since I watched Quentin Tarrantino's Django Unchained and although I have written briefly about his work ( http://intas8n.blogspot.com/2013/11/san-quentins-narrative-on-slavery.html) I cannot claim to have completely plumbed the depths of it's effects on me.

His project sits alongside House ( created by Davis Shore and written by Lawrence Kaplow and Peter Blake and featuring amongst others Hugh Laurie) even if they dwell in broadly different categories. When I first was introduced to House, I was fascinated by the dialogues and the central character. The best way to describe it is in the form of art and music. Every time the man spoke you felt as though he was painting and drawing. You felt as though he was dancing across a wide open space and that with every word, a new breathtaking combination was being revealed.

Tarantino had the same effect although his mastery was combined with an A list of characters both comical in their presentation of complex subjects and artistic and thought provoking in the delivery of its thoughtful content.

That aside though, both these works invaded my sub-conscious.
I had dreams about both of these projects (separated by the time in which I watched them) but both frighteningly realistic. Maybe the effects of House was unavoidable granted it's content (diagnostic medicine).

Django unchained felt a little more like time travel or like the twilight zone in which the central character keeps being trapped in life threatening situations ( in one case he is taken back in time as a slave even though he can clearly see that his complexion is white, in another, he is thrust into Nazi Germany and must contend with anti semitism).

So what my point. Well my version of a good movie is one that makes troubling subjects palatable and makes troubled human personalities relatable. A good movie is a portal into the past which can implant itself into your sub-conscious rearing it's head at will and forcing you to think twice about who you are what you do and think.

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