Cinema could be described as a powerful tool that helps moviemakers and directors to convey a certain message and make the audience think about a certain issue or phenomena. The popularity of this kind of art results in its increased power and ability to impact the public opinion by demonstrating a certain event from a specific perspective and using numerous techniques. For instance, self-reflection is known to be one of them.
A film of this sort entails the usage of specific editing to impact the audiences intellectual perception of the movie and call attention to a certain scene in a reflexive manner. Very often individuals notice another perspective related to the issue under the impact of this approach.
Quentin Tarantino is known to be a master of such films as very often they are characterized by the unique structure. For instance, his Inglorious Bastards are edited in the way that emphasizes its being a constructed medium and subjectivity of the plot and filmmakers. The given approach is rather complex; however, at the same time, it results in the appearance of several layers of understanding. Having realized the fact that the history might have some alternative ending, the audience starts to analyze it in a different way. From the very beginning, viewers are sure that some episode from the WWII is shown.
Thus, scenes in which the Bear Jew kills Hitler and Landa makes a deal with the team subvert audience expectations. Tarantino demonstrates an alternative ending, and a viewer realizes the fact that periodic segments of the movie serve as the prolog to the final third episode with the alternative ending and pact with Landa. This could be taken as the perfect example of using self-reflection to attract the attention and make people reconsider their attitude to the movie and events described there.
As stated above, the story is broken into several chapters that follow each other and provide a logical narration. However, at the end of the movie, we could observe the radical alteration of the film history and not expected scenes come. It helps Tarantino to construct his own unique narrative characterized by the unusual development.
Finally, Inglorious Bastards contains some comic moments that are created with the help of specific setting and sounds. The tensest scenes like the fight in the hotel are supported by the original soundtrack that contributes to the creation of a specific atmosphere and a certain comic effect. For this reason, the sound is another powerful tool used by Tarantino to achieve a certain effect and make the audience feel it.