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Django Unchained

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Blaze of Gory: Overstreet's Christianity Today commentary on Django Unchained
Django Unchained

Blaze of Gory: Overstreet's Christianity Today commentary on Django Unchained

One from the archive: Here's the commentary that Christianity Today editors asked me to write in 2013.
25 Jun 2025 5 min read
Blaze of Gory
On Movies & Media

Blaze of Gory

On Christmas Day 2012 — while Americans were still grieving for victims of the Newtown elementary-school massacre — "Django Unchained," the new film by Quentin Tarantino, opened nationwide. This week, as my community grieves the loss of lives in two recent Seattle school shootings, Tarantino's hyper
27 Oct 2014 4 min read
Django Unchained

Django Unchained (2012)

"Django Unchained" stands in stark contrast to traditions of American storytelling that have covered up the suffering slaves endured. When a culture tells stories that excuse its own evils long enough, the pendulum is sure to swing the other direction to reveal, even exaggerate, what has been left o
25 Dec 2012 8 min read
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