Django unchained: An analysis

Abstract

Django Unchained, the latest film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, tells the story of a rescued enslaved person named Django (Jaime Foxx) who teams up with his rescuer, a German-immigrant bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), in an effort to capture criminal fugitives “dead or alive” as a way of acquiring monetary awards. Django and Schultz ultimately devise a scheme to liberate Django’s enslaved wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the brutal slaveholder Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). The film takes place in the South, in the time frame from 1858 to 1859. It is a film about revenge and redemption.