Bastardos Inglorios -

And sometimes, a baseball bat to the head of a Nazi is the most honest response to evil.

Their paths converge at the premiere of a Nazi propaganda film, where both plots—one explosive, one incendiary—aim to decapitate the German high command in a single night. Tarantino’s title is ironic. The Basterds are not heroes in any classical sense. They beat informants to death with baseball bats. They carve swastikas into foreheads. They are, by any standard military code, war criminals. Yet, because their targets are Nazis, the audience cheers. Bastardos Inglorios

But is this simply a revenge fantasy, or is Tarantino saying something deeper about fiction versus fact? The film unfolds in five chapters, following two parallel narratives. On one side, we have Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) leading a Jewish-American commando unit known as “The Basterds.” Their mission: scalp Nazis and instill terror in the Third Reich. On the other, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), a French-Jewish cinema owner who escapes the massacre of her family by Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), the infamous "Jew Hunter." And sometimes, a baseball bat to the head