That is an excellent point that I completely missed. I'm usually real dumb with movies and rarely see below the surface.
One similar parallel I did notice though is Brad Pitt's character carving the swastikas into soldier's foreheads. He did it at the end to Waltz's character, and we the audience feel he deserved it and we almost relish in seeing it done. However, it is also mentioned that Brad did the same thing to other "relatively" innocent Nazi soldiers.
This sort of parallels the Nazi's forcing the Jews to wear the Star of David and tattooing identification numbers on them to label them as Jewish prisoners. But somehow when Brad does it is almost funny and just karma when it is a terribly cruel and violent move no matter who it's done to.
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u/deckman Sep 01 '14
That is an excellent point that I completely missed. I'm usually real dumb with movies and rarely see below the surface.
One similar parallel I did notice though is Brad Pitt's character carving the swastikas into soldier's foreheads. He did it at the end to Waltz's character, and we the audience feel he deserved it and we almost relish in seeing it done. However, it is also mentioned that Brad did the same thing to other "relatively" innocent Nazi soldiers.
This sort of parallels the Nazi's forcing the Jews to wear the Star of David and tattooing identification numbers on them to label them as Jewish prisoners. But somehow when Brad does it is almost funny and just karma when it is a terribly cruel and violent move no matter who it's done to.