Quentin Tarantino

• Reservoir Dogs (1992)

• Pulp Fiction (1994)

• Jackie Brown (1997)

• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

• Death Proof (2007)

• Inglourious Basterds (2009)

• Django Unchained (2012)

• The Hateful Eight (2015)

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Ten movies like ten fingers, as it is very difficult to pick a favourite or the best. Most reviewers pick Pulp Fiction as Tarantino’s top movie; I cannot. How can (could) I when each one of his movies is a masterpiece? I do have a favourite, however; although it is probably biased, or I may perceive something beyond the apparent.

Once upon a time in Athens, floated the adored Twelve Olympians, Athena unchained from the rest of them, with death as proof for Hades after every kill of a Gouliélmos (“William” in Greek). The ground may have been brown, but it paled compared to the sky and the sea, no matter if the scrolls spoke of science fiction, with no dogs allowed, except for dying wolves a.k.a Romans.

Inglourious Basterds is the most fictitious, yet it is the one I can still watch with glee, again and again, as Nazis die and burn instead of the still hated Others; you know, the Jews; jewels, many of them; with hatred, ignorance and jealousy, their daily bread and nightly useless prayer. Next year in Jerusalem eventually took place, yet the gratuitous hatred remained like a virus that mutates forever.

Quiet desperation quenched

Underneath a dying breath

Ever present and entrenched

Nearing a Tel-Aviv death

Terror has to be blood-drenched

Inclined to kill for Lethe

Not to disappear pithy

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