The TV Addict 

After recently listing some of the films I found offensive, I realized afterwards that I can’t really say any of them offended me on a personal level. By that I mean I was offended for others. After all, most of my complaints were about misogyny and racism in films, and I am white and not a woman. It left me wondering, what would happen if somebody made an “offensive” film that hit closer to home for me? Would I react like the disabilities groups responding to TROPIC THUNDER, or would I be able to maintain a degree of objectivity?

Thanks to Quentin Tarantino’s INGLORIOUS BASTARDS I now have the perfect scenario to help me answer that very question. You see, though I’m a born Canadian, both my parents were born and raised Germans, and I myself have lived there for three years. I speak the language, I have close family there, and consider myself a very proud German who is sometimes sensitive to how we are perceived in regards to WWII.

That puts me in an interesting situation now that some Germans are up in arms about how in Tarantino’s script for INGLORIOUS BASTARDS there is no end of violence inflicted upon my fellow countrymen.

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