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I've been going through the list of the Atlantic's most influential bloggers, looking at their backgrounds and positions on certain issues. Harvard and Oxford grads are overrepresented. Men are overrepresented. Whites are overrepresented. Jews are overrepresented. And conservative Jews are waaaay overrepresented.
Who people are listening to needs to be discussed. There is one tiny segment of the population being listened to on a whole range of issues, not just Israel. It's important to acknowledge and discuss that.
I'm a woman and I liked the film right away. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it. The other woman I saw it with liked it also, so I don't see the gender split.
In fact, I thought the movie was oddly feminist in a way. Both plots to destroy the Nazis were designed by women. The men in the movie kept screwing up, often underestimating the women, and kept getting their balls handed to them. Nice touch considering that both the Nazis and the war film genre he is making fun of were unbelievably sexist.
I think the first chapter might be the most beautiful thing Tarantino has ever shot. And the actor who played the french dairy farmer was amazing. The fact that Tarantino didn't show the faces and didn't try to show the holocaust was, I think, a tribute to the fact that you can't make the holocaust any more obscenely violent. Tarantino can't do anything with it, so he left that alone.
The criticisms of Brad Pitt really miss the point. He is making fun of war movies. Old war movies always had a bad actor who was very good looking. We cheer for him because he is Brad Pitt, even though his character is horrible. And those heroes were also often good ole country boys who didn't take shit and saw the world as good v. evil (a la GW Bush). He's making fun of that.
Finally, just because someone draws a line between different types of violence doesn't mean one is being equated with the other. He has us cheering as we watch them cheering. He has us cheering for people with bombs strapped to their bodies who are about to blow up, not just soldiers, but their wives and girlfriends. It doesn't mean there is equivalence, but if that makes people feel a little dirty, maybe that isn't such a bad thing.