Django Unchained (2012)

What earned the score

• Race-Based Revenge as the Engine

  Django’s enslavement and his partnership with Schultz to hunt down white men make racial identity the organizing logic of the revenge plot. The film turns that racial conflict into its central dramatic mechanism.

• Racist Pseudoscience as Villain Doctrine

  Plantation owner Calvin Candie delivers an extended argument that black men are genetically structured for slavery. The speech makes racial hierarchy explicit as part of the film’s portrayal of plantation power.

• Slavery as American Moral Indictment

  Django and Brunhilde are separated by the slave trade, and their rescue story unfolds against a plantation system whose brutality and racist violence the film deliberately foregrounds. This portrayal indicts slavery as an American institution and drives Django’s effort to reunite with his wife.

Details

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Starring

Jamie FoxxChristoph WaltzLeonardo DiCaprioKerry WashingtonSamuel L. Jackson

Director

Quentin Tarantino

Writer

Quentin Tarantino

Genre

DramaWestern

Release Date

Dec 25, 2012

Parents Guide

• Sex Moderate

  A nude man's buttocks are briefly visible.

  Virtually no sex in this film. It is only moderate for some non sexual nudity. In terms of sexual content this would be PG-13 but the other thing make it rated r.

  A nude man's buttocks and penis are briefly visible while hanging from his feet.

  A naked slave woman is forced out of a metal bin under the sun. Breasts are briefly seen.

  A man asks for a slave woman to be sent to his room to which the master gets excited. She is sent up but he only wishes to speak to her.

  A slave owner asks if he got to have sex with her. He discusses this with him.

• Violence Severe

  An explosion happens where multiple horse and men die. Then a main character shoots someone and they fall of their horse. Blood is seen on the horse.

  Django shoots a man in the chest, blood is seen. He then viciously whips another man and shoots him repeatedly. Then a character shoots a man off his horse and blood sprays everywhere and lands on some nearby cotton.

  The violence is incredibly brutal but not constant.

  A man threatens to castrate Django with a hot knife, but he is stopped before doing so. Django's balls are shown in this scene.

  The vast majority of the violence in the film is in the context of dark comedy and the majority of it is western themed violence but with a lot of gore. The slavery violence is unflinching and deeply disturbing.

  A man slams his hand on a table and cuts it on some glass, this is notable because Leonardo De Caprio actually cut himself in this scene and it is real blood shown on his hand.

  Django shoots a woman and sends her flying into the other room. He shoots several other people and an older man in both his knee caps. He then blows up the house. This scene is also very bloody.

  The most brutal scene shows two slaves being forced to fight to the death for white mens entertainment. They puns each other's body and one kills the other in an incredibly brutal way. This is as bad as it gets.

  A man gets attacked and killed by dogs. The camera doesn't show it that much but screaming is heard and some split second shots of the dogs biting him. Even though it's not very gory it's still the most disturbing scene in the movie.

  One shootout in particular is extremely gory and lots and lots of people are brutally shot to death with shotguns and handguns. Tons and tons of blood is shown and throughout the scene some of the shooters constantly miss and hit one of their own men's legs over and over and repeatedly shoot a dead body in slow motion. By the end of the scene the walls are almost completely covered in blood.

• Profanity Severe

  "f**k" and "s**t" is used alongside lesser profanity like b**ch and ass. Standard R-type language. Use of racial slurs, as was the "standard" at the time.

• Drugs Mild

  Alcohol and tobacco use.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  A slave is attacked by dogs offscreen and can be heard screaming in pain. This may upset sensitive viewers.

  Themes of racism, slavery, and their unethical treatment will undoubtedly upset sensitive viewers.

  Two men are forced to fight for other peoples' entertainment. The one man kills him in a bloody way.

  Almost all of the central characters end up dead by the end.

  The violence in this film is occasionally more grounded and realistic than some of Tarantino's other films. However when it gets over the top and bloody it gets VERY bloody.

  The shootings often doesn't feel too disturbing because the people getting killed are awful people usually.

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