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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Review
Quentin Tarantino's revenge-spree on historical wrongdoers
continues, but his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
isn't a banal revenge movie; it's a tour-de-force in zeitgeist
celebration and imaginative counterfactual (his)storytelling.
Tarantino takes us back to late 1960s Hollywood in a more
comprehensive and visually captivating way than has ever been done
before in film, populating his story with recognizable yet fresh Tarantinoesque characters: an about-to-be washed-out B-movie
star (Leonardo DiCaprio), his no-nonsense stunt double and buddy
(Brad Pitt), and a record-breaking cast of real and made-up supporting characters whom Tarantino lets float in and out of focus
in Altmanesque fashion. The diversity of these characters is one of the keys to
why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is such an exhaustive
motion picture, one that assaults all your senses and faculties at
once. The film has a lot to say about both past, present, and
timeless affairs, but it doesn't express itself as bombastically as
some of Tarantino's more recent films (The
Hateful Eight,
Inglourious Basterds). Rather, it adopts a more
essayistic tone, mulling over its themes and innuendos with a sexy,
seductive assuredness. This is Tarantino's most compelling piece
since Pulp Fiction.
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