One thing that most reviews of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood don't quite get at is how the movie is very rueful, self-critical and (deliberately) ambiguous. @Jo_Livingstone's essay is valuable for highlighting this:https://newrepublic.com/article/154591/quentin-tarantinos-metoo-moment …
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The negative view of Once Upon a Time would be that it's mythologizing its heroes, but since that mythologizing is so clearly at odds with history I think it functions as Utopian art does (according to Jameson): as a critique of inadequacy of the real.
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I can’t remember who said it but DiCaprio’s and Pitt’s characters are the kind of guys who say they would have been able to stop the murders if only they were there.
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