• war rhetoric

I confess to being a Quentin Tarantino fan, but, not having any conceptual vocabulary for analyzing movies, I've never understood why. I think Inglourious Basterds is his masterpiece (although unlike, say, Reservoir Dogs or Kill Bill 2, I'm unlikely to want to see it again soon). I found myself speculating, as I often do, about counterfactual arguments and historical causation as Miriam and I left the theater. Here's the best analysis of the movie I've read thus far, addressing history and the ethics of spectatorship. Tarentino knows, as Kenneth Burke wrote, how to "go to the end of the line" with a certain kind of narrative logic and rhetoric.

• Jim Aune's blog
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