Sunday, March 28, 2010

Inglorious Bastards

Inglorious Bastards is about a guerilla war group sent into Germany to kill Hitler. This group uses disguises and other means to get close to Hitler's whereabout. While trying to locate and kill him they run into a woman named Shoshanna Dreyfus. She was a Jewish woman who saw her family get murdered and is plotting revenge on the Nazis. One of the Nazi officers falls for her and wants to use her theater to show a movie about the greatness of the Nazi's. He doesn't know that she is a Jew and promises that all the top officers including Hitler will be at this movie. Shoshanna meets the "Bastards" and they work together to bring the Nazi's down in a fiery death.

Ideological criticism is shown in this movie. One of the many ideals shown is ethnocentrism. This is because the Nazi's put their world and ideals higher than anyone else's. They put the Jews in a category lower than everyone else because the Nazi's thought they were inferior. An example of this is when Shoshanna's family was killed in front of her eyes.