Special thrill that you want to taste again...

The fashion is to say either good or anything about Quentin Tarantino's films...
Well... That means that nothing should have been said... and "Basterds" wouldn't be in the 're-watching' category (which contains 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction')...
The questions "What that, actually, was? And, most importantly, why?.." that cropped up after the first 'acquaintance' were too obvious and the only answer was: "If 'Maitre' wants to cut out the events of WWII again with the dreams of his own, no one have the right to prevent him from doing so..."

Most likely, the people with the same big buoyant suitcase of all to pieces filmknowledge, which has the 'creator' himself, will be pleased to exchange glances like inveterate erudite movie persons and with a smile of light superiority say: "Have you noticed?" and hear the answer: "Oh, yes... so subtly..."
All that's left for those who cannot boast of a perfect knowing of all the possible movie and musical quotes is trying to catch the charm of the new look at tattered old dame History...
Well, not really that new... In the time of hostility on that real war there was a lot of spaghetti-western-kind stories that were filmed in order to raise fighting spirit of troops (movies were delivering almost at the front line and showed to the soldiers on large sheets instead of big screen) as well as among the civilian population, whose life was not much easier than on the battlefront...

"Krauts"-buffoons who endlessly getting into the Rabelaisian-humiliating situations, quick-witted "Russian Ivany" who wins the heart with charming slight heroism, the harsh bearded "partisanen" who specializes in the slew of enemies with agronomic tools (rake, shovels, garden knives) or simply drowning them in kolkhoz's loo... Have not been forgotten and appearing from time to time American, British and French allies, who forged along with the comrades their joint future victory...
Indisputably those directors who created that 'little military agitation' are not a patch on QJT (as far as your brain can imagine)...

But daredevilry of an approach to whatever-would-it-be and boundless personal interpretation of the possible events are very much resembling that old one: naive, meant for keeping up the soldiers' strength and to whisper in the ear: "They are not so frightful, these Nazis... if they can be such clowns as you see them now..."

“From the conversation of fans of the 'sensational' (in its time) series "Santa Barbara":
- But at this moment Cruz Castillo has meddled...
- Oh, and what? Saved everyone?
- No! He was not allowed to... but he meddled nevertheless..."

But then in the sad course of events has meddled Michael...
More precisely, only the few shots with Hauptsturmfuhrer, so unsuitable non-Deutschland pronouncing his r's... they are not changed our mind about the whole film, but convinced that even here there's some special thrill that you want to taste again... and it was not those berries, which took the first lines in the cast list...

Short repeated denial of SS-Sturmbannfuhrer, giving a clear understanding that no one can go out of this basement... And everything will happen this way, not otherwise, even if all together and each one of the presents separately didn't want this to happen more than anything else...

Archibald's frozen look... look of not quite a military man... who is a stranger to sharpening of so big knives (accustomed to scalping in order to obtain more and more scalps)... who tenderly loves cinematograph and who is unlikely to prefer violence in any of its existing ways...

"I'm going to die soon...
The funny thing...
I wasn't going to do this...
And I almost didn't have time...
At least, had not as much as I'd like to...
And didn't saw even more...
And this is it?
Very likely...
Strange... and definitely..."

to be continued...