FILM REVIEW: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood: One-time video store clerk Tarantino pays homage

At this stage of his career, watching a Quentin Tarantino movie can be like facing Shane Warne in a test match. So many of his scalps were taken not because of the ball, but because of the man. The name. Can a 160-minute feature epic about his passion, the movie industry and Hollywood culture, translate into an epic for fans and movie-goers?defined just about everything including Tarantino’s career and a new genre of moviemaking.

Tarantino mixes fictional with factual, interlacing real people, places and events with the dramatised. Real Hollywood casualties that make it into the movie include director RomanIt’s hard to describe this movie by traditional labelling standards. The best one can do is to force a few descriptors together, like: black-comedy meets suspense thrilling bromance mockumentary. The movie’s length allows enough time for various themes to play out, and yet, never feels too long or drawn out.

Dalton descends into a spiral of self-doubt as the realisation of his career status mixes with more than a dash of alcohol, tormenting his ability to remember his lines. A chance on-set meeting with eight-year-old Julia Butters inspires Dalton to get his acting shit together. His next scene is straight out of acting, where DiCaprio, playing an actor who is busy acting, forgets his lines and asks for a cue.

Another theme to emerge from “Once upon a time…” is that of the female movie star in a town known for praise-singing all things fit and fleshy. It’s hard to tell whether Margot Robbie’s portrayal of Sharon Tate in the movie is an acknowledgement of the sexism of 1960s Hollywood, or an accentuation of it. Tate is literally barefoot and pregnant in one of the final scenes and goes through much of the movie with few speaking lines.

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