While going through some of the pages of this website, I also re-read the “about”-section and decided to rework it. After more than 20 years it seemed no longer appropriate. At the same time, putting a statement supporting free speech, science and democracy out on a tiny little page on a strategy game and World War II seemed equally ridiculous, so I shortened the text. This left a couple of things unsaid, ergo: this post.
I recently re-watched the Inglorious Basterds. This is one of the few truly antifascist movies I know , diligently examining its protagonists and showing no matter how cunning you are, or how dutiful you might be, or how much of a star you’ve become, or how brave, or how pretty: If you are a Nazi, you deserve to be shot.
Of course there is a lot more to be said about a stellar cast, historical fiction as a narrative technique, and Tarrantino being a brilliant but problematic director. But to me, this is what it all boils down to: If you are trying to violently split humanity into the idolized and the unwanted, the masters and serfs, the believers and the heathens, I will fight you.
