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"There were slave revolts in the antebellum South. Someday, perhaps, someone will make a movie about one. For that someone, reading William Styron’s “The Confessions of Nat Turner” would be a good place to start. And “Django Unchained” could serve as a primer on what not to do. That this travesty was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, let alone that it won, is an aesthetic and a moral scandal."
— Hendrik Hertzberg on “Django Unchained” and the context of slavery: http://nyr.kr/W8J4Gy