A Movie

 This past week....'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' came to Netflix.  It was my first time viewing it.....I've watched it three times since that evening.  If you haven't seen the movie....I'd heavily endorse a viewing.

First, to the subject of it being a Tarantino production?  He tends to produce masterpieces, and the type that you want to go back to for a second viewing.  He puts effort into the dialog, the characters, the story, and the ending.  

Second, to the subject of this being a 'what-if' situation....where in 1969, things unfold, and the Manson crowd will go and screw with the wrong people on that fateful evening, and the 'Cliff Booth-character' (Brad Pitt) is dished out over the whole movie as being a guy who never fulfills his destiny.  In this 'what-if' ending.....Cliff ends up meeting Tex and two of the teenage Manson gals, and things really don't go well for the Manson team.

Third, in the last third of the movie, Tarantino introduces you to Cliff's moments at the 'ranch' where the Manson crowd are hanging out.  In some odd way, Tarantino labels them in a way as 'woke' and consumed with their version of reality.

It's a five-minute scene where you really think hard over this scene, and today's reality with woke-idiots.

Between Charlie's talks, the drugs, and the continual indoctrination.....none of the ladies at the ranch have any respect.  They've lost their ability to grasp reality or to handle real-life situations.   Tarantino gives you the 'ladies' using bully-tactics, condemnation, and threats....to get their points across (the same as the woke-crowd today).

The fifteen minutes of the movie?  It is ultra violent and you are fairly shocked over how Cliff, his dog, Rick Dalton and 'Brandy' are going to handle the situation with Tex and the two ladies. 

So I'm left with this long pondering situation over Charlie's 'gang'.  All of them went through some type of mind-melt or brainwash.  None of them ever showed this significant amount of violence before this event.  They were cultivated, charmed, and simply became pro-Charlie (no matter what).  

I'll recommend the movie, but just say clearly.....after it ends, you probably need a half bottle of wine, and will go back to contemplate five different scenes in the movie.