| − | |This fantastic film from (albeit, very liberal) director Quentin Tarantino is a love letter to the older and more conservative film industry. It portrays the main character's alcoholism as the main thing holding him back in his later years. It also shows that hard work always pays off in how successful the main character's career was. In addition to all this, the film's villains are hippies. The movie shows hippies as they are- brain damaged and really gross- and it makes no attempt to humanize them. Despite all of this, it does contain history revisionism, graphic violence, and gratuitous drug use (the latter of which is played for comedy and shown as fun and consequence free). | + | |This fantastic film from (albeit, very liberal) director Quentin Tarantino, set in 1969 Los Angeles, is a love letter to the older and more conservative film industry. It portrays the main character's alcoholism as the main thing holding him back in his later years. It also shows that hard work always pays off in how successful the main character's career was. In addition to all this, the film's villains, real-life cult leader/criminal [[Charles Manson]] (who masterminded the Tate-LaBianca murders) and his "Family" (who carried out the murders), are [[hippie]]s. The movie shows hippies as they really are - brain-damaged from drug use and really gross in both appearance and personal habits - and it makes no attempt to humanize them. Despite all of this, it does contain historic revisionism, graphic violence (a hallmark of Tarantino movies), and gratuitous drug use (the latter of which is played for laughs and shown as fun and consequence-free, contrary to real life). This was the first film to be made by Tarantino after he broke ties with Bob and [[Harvey Weinstein]] following the latter's convictions for sexual assault, and was also the last film to feature actor Luke Perry prior to his death from a stroke in March 2019. |