Praise, criticism, and ambiguity around 'Django Unchained'

When she saw Quentin Tarantino's movie, "Inglourious Basterds," Jazmyne Z. Young thought, “Wow, I’m not even Jewish and I still felt a sense of satisfaction when the Nazi’s head got bashed in with a baseball bat… I wish there was a movie like that for Black people!” With “Django Unchained,” Tarantino's new movie about a former slave who sets out to free his wife from bondage and exact revenge on a sadistic Mississippi slave owner, critics of color aren't in total agreement about whether the film makes a point, with its liberal use of violence the n-word.Read the responses of two young critics, as they discuss history, Spike Lee, and race and the movie industry, on Richmond Pulse.django-unchained

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