Review of Django (1966) by Eric H — 26 Jun 2013
A Spaghetti Western set in a violent and dreary American West of muddy, impassable roads and rickety, broken-down, wooden buildings, 'Django' is a revisionist Western which remixes traditional elements of the genre like dance hall girls and shootouts into a daringly re-imagined portrait of the Old West.
Graphically it's violent, with whippings, dismemberments and a particularly brutal disfigurement of the eponymous hero's hands, while philosophically it's nihilist, portraying a completely hopeless world of cyclical eye-for-an-eye style revenge and retribution.
It manages to rise above it's exploitation elements with a love story told through elisions and glances and a hero who can really kick ass.
This review of Django (1966) was written by Eric H on 26 Jun 2013.
Django has generally received positive reviews.
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