Inglorious Basterds

Since January 2009 I have been looking forward to the August 21st release date of Inglorious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. While many people think that Inglorious Basterds is just a shoot' em up adventure movie with no plot, they could not be more wrong. Inglorious Basterds focuses on three groups of people: The basterds, Shoshanna Dreyfus, and Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter. Inglorious Basterds focuses on Judaism in many different ways. The Basterds, a group of eight Jews from America are dropped into France with the sole purpose of killing Nazis and then scalping them. Shoshanna Dreyfus is a Jew who escaped from Hans Landa, an SS officer with the job of hunting down Jews and then killing them. When Shoshanna was a teenager, her hiding place had been given away by the French farmer she was being hidden by, and her entire family died except for her. Hans Landa is known among France and Germany as the Jew Hunter, and he was the Nazi who tried to kill Shoshanna's family. I won't tell you what happens in the end of the movie, but it is very suspenseful, and there is a lot of action and shooting. In the first scene of the movie, Hans Landa confronts a French farmer about the location of some Jews. The movie confronts the horror and terror of the World War II, and how hard it was for Jews to survive in the Second World War. I definitely recommend this movie. I give Inglorious Basterds a 9.3/10.