(If you haven’t seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, heads up: I’m about to spoil large portions of the movie, including the ending, for you.) It took some processing and deeper consideration of the film’s context, within 1969 culture as well as the culture of today, to finally determine that what bothers me is what it tells us about men frustrated by cultural shifts, the ways we define and glorify old-school heroism, and how unwilling the movie is to dig more deeply into what it’s ultimately trying to say about both things. I fully enjoyed all of these elements and, for the most part, the entire movie.īut I was also disturbed by it in a way that I have not been able to shake. It’s got outstanding performances from an exceptional cast production design that plunges its audience into a distinct time and place that is - and this is an enormous added bonus - different from the same damned portrait of the ’60s we’ve seen a jillion times before a fantastic, idiosyncratic soundtrack (a Tarantino specialty) and camerawork that is stylistic and dynamic without coming across as too showy. As critics have said, ad nauseam at this point, there is a lot to love in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s grand, meandering flashback to the final months of the 1960s.
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