Inglourious Basterds

Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) is divided into 5 chapters. Here you have 5 reasons why you should watch it:

1 Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). He is the responsible of the funniest scenes and the wittiest conversations. Listening to him talk German, French, English and Italian fluently is also a pleasure. To finish with him, his face at the moment he knows is going to be marked for life..

2 The soundtrak. Most of the tracks are by Ennio Morricone. Music in the first chapter has an interesting effect. You think you are watching a western and not a film that takes place in the occupied France.

3 Samuel L Jackson. Ok, I know he is not acting as Jules, speaking about hamburguers in Europe, but the narrator's voice is his.

4 Shosanna's (Mélanie Laurent) story, the reference to The Searchers (John Ford 1956) at the end of the first chapter (When she is introduced), and the scene when the cinema burns.

5 The last reason for watching Inglorious Basterds, just if you are a real Tarantino's fan are.. the dialogues. This is a long film, in part, thanks to the tedious nonsense dialogues.  The "Who I am?" scene is one of them.

Reservoir dogs

In the first Tarantino's film as director, where he also acts as Mr Brown, he lays the foundations of the main characteristics of all his work.
One of them is the special treatment of time. I have not seen every Tarantino's film, but I can not remember any film in which the time is lineal. Also, in Reservoir dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) we are not shown the core of the film, a jewelery heist, but its training and consequeces. Moreover, we are shown, by flashbacks, the origin of the plan.

Another of this typical Tarantino's characteristic are the conversations about irrelevant topics. Like a Virgin's real sense, tv soap operas.. In any case, the most famous irrelevant conversation in a Tarantino's film is the one about hamburguers in Europe. I am sure you remember it. In these scenes we identify ourselves with the characters, since we realize they are not inaccessible but normal people.

With regard to mise-en-scène, costumes play an important role in Reservoir dogs. Why do six gangsters dress the same and so elegant? If you watch the film, you'll see that the six main characters do not know any personal information about each other. They name each other with a color as a name. As they can not share any personal information, they have to dress uniform. Only Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son (Chris Penn) wear informal clothes.

  -I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway.

The offscreen space has also an important role, since we are not shown violent scenes. We get the sound, a shot close to the action, but not the action itself. 

I would recommend this movie. I thought this kind of movies were not very entertaining, but time flew when I watched it. Maybe because my friends and I were talking about our different impressions of the film calmly, as the gangsters could do just before shooting their gun.