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Its terrific … until it isnt, which Ill get to below.
Sharon Tate is clearly the future, while Rick is desperate to stop being the past.
Its a decadent town slowly, sweetly rotting away.
But for all that, his universe has always been a dark, twisted, cruel one.
When the movie wanders and lingers, we sense thathesthe one whos wandering and lingering.
Its not really a hang-out flick; the characters are too disconnected for that.
Instead, the director is the one hanging out.
He doesnt want to leave this universe.
He probably has an eight-hour cut of this thing somewhere.
These people are ridiculous, and we love them.
If Tarantino makes any missteps, they come at the end.
Tarantino sets it all up and stages the films climax quite well.
At the same time, I can see why he does it the way he does.
