Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood” first section starts at a sluggish pace with music played at pain threshold (in my cinema, at least), though pretty to look at, and nostalgic. A very big ‘however’, it makes a gearshift some way through the film and becomes intriguing, human and suspenseful. Ultimately, it shifts again further, into cataclysmic and very, theatrically, violent final scenes. The film is something to behold, has surprises, and a kind of revenge on history. Fiction versus reality, with fiction the distinct winner. After the end, the film shifts into a cure, humour, almost like saying, don’t take this film too seriously. Health and safety warning the film portrays hippies unfairly. Peace and love man. rkw
Location: The Wild West, USA
Photographer: illustration rkw
