Miracle at St Anna and Inglorious Bastards comparison

Miracle at St Anna and Inglorious Bastards comparison

Miracle at St’ Anna (2008) was directed by Spike Lee. It follows  the story of four black American soldiers during WW2 from the British perspective. It displays the friendships between characters and how their environment affects their emotions. Inglorious Bastards (2009), was directed by Quentin Tarantino is similarly set during World War 2, however, this is taken from a French Jewish viewpoint and displays the emotions towards the Hitler and the Nazis  in a negative way. Evidently these films are set in the same time frame but display different opinions on the war; however both want Hitler and the Nazis to perish.

Miracle at St’ Anna provided a cliff hanger beginning. In the first scene we witness an unidentified character being shot in broad daylight this automatically opens up questions. Who shot him? Why did they? What did they do? This for me was a very successfully beginning because automatically your attention is caught and you receive an understanding of the situation.  Alternatively Inglorious Basterds begins with a family being interrogated until a hibernating Jewish family is discovered and shot ( all but the eldest daughter). This already answer your questions and in a way the film could have ended right there in that first scene there was an introduction, climax, and cliff hanger ending. There for the following scene was like a new start to the film.

Inglorious Bastards follows a linear narrative, linear narratives follow a straight line; starting at the beginning, moving to the middle and proceeding to the end of the story, however there was a part of the film that jumps from 1941 to 1944. Miracle at St’  Anna on the other hand follows a nonlinear narrative because it is usually set during the war which in context of the film is the past and is shown in flashbacks. I feel that Miracle at St’ Anna was harder to follow as it was very disjointed, by doing this my interest slipped at times as the film wasn’t able to grasp my full attention.

In conclusion I preferred inglorious bastards. My reasoning behind this is the story line was a lot easier to follow I fully understood the plot which engaged me until the very end of the film. I also feel that Quentin Tarantino’s imaginative take on the war allowed us to have an insight into a Jewish woman’s perspective. Throughout the film we are aware of her position in society at this time which added suspense onto her getting rediscovered by the Nazis.