He stages violence as spectacle, but the way he uses violence is always also more than a spectacle: it serves as irritation-or better interruption-of audience perception, audience experience, and audience expectations. To fully appreciate the multilayered message of the film, an alternative reading of its aesthetics of violence is necessary: one that focuses on Tarantino’s defiant and bold (yet intentional) use of various forms of violence to brilliantly orchestrate (or manipulate) the viewers’ emotions and bodily senses.
This article suggests that violence is a deliberate and important means for Inglourious Basterds to work. Others, however, perceive it as a much needed and refreshing film - despite or precisely because Tarantino makes obvious the webs of violence. Many reviewers have pointed out that the film is morally ambivalent the least because of the aesthetics of violence and the revised version of Europe’s darkest years of the twentieth century. "Quentin Tarantino’s latest violent masterpiece Inglourious Basterds has been well yet critically received.
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