jickbones:

... tarantino knows very much what he is doing when he draws the audience into morally reprehensible or questionable territory. he is forcing us to confront our responses, examine them, along with our prejudices, and all the while he is reminding us that we are watching a movie, and that whatever power the images have, it is movie power; what we see onscreen is representative, because it cannot help being so, but tarantino exposes his images as such and thus draws double the power from them by forcing our awareness of the symbolic, signified nature of his set-pieces and characters. Thus, the movie becomes about the idea of a revenge fantasy, and a perverse exaggeration of a revenge fantasy, and tarantino masterfully mediates our responses, our horror, guilt, revulsion, glee, and so on, and in so doing makes us have to take responsibility for our responses to his images by active examination OF our responses. there's a reason for the last line of the film.. "i think this might just be my masterpiece" ...