DJango Unchained and Human Dignity.

I finally watched “DJango Unchained”.

Set in the notorious “Red neck” South, two years before the American Civil War, “Django Unchained” is the story of a slave whose brutal history with his former owners (the Brittle brothers) lands him face-to-face with a German-born bounty hunter. The bounty hunter is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to them. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on his own agendum which is to find and rescue Broomhilda, the wife he lost to the slave trade a long time ago. The search of Django and the bounty hunter ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie, the barbaric proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation.

Irrespective of motive, excuse or whatever guise that gives rise to them, I avoid stories of unrestricted passivity and helplessness in the face of tyranny, oppression and all other forms of human degradation. They tend to give me depression. I detest them…the same way I detest scenarios where people allow themselves to be cowed and subjugated for too long without lifting a finger to fight!

History is replete with examples of such sad stories with some of the worst being the passively helplessness of too many Jews in Dachau, Auswitch and other German concentration camps during the 2nd World War.

Unlike their hapless counterparts in Dachau and other places though, the Jews of Sobibor extermination camp in Poland refused to accept their fate. On October 14, 1943, they successfully revolted against their German captors, many of whom were killed while the Jews escaped. Now, that’s what I’m talking about! Since it’s release in the 1980s, I have watched the movie, “Escape From Sobibor” a “million” times.

I loved all stories of emancipation from human miseries. I particularly appreciate books and movies about people who refuse to accept or tolerate tyrannies, indignities and Man’s inhumanity to Man.

And it’s for this peculiar reason that I enjoyed watching “DJango Unchained” with all its carefully-woven plots around the personal determination of one man to reject slavery and work towards the elimination of its perpetrators in his own “little” way.