 Adam Serwer from Mother Jones provided a more nuanced view , saying that " Django , like many Tarantino films , also has been criticized as cartoonishly violent , but it is only so when Django is killing slave owners and overseers . The violence against slaves is always appropriately terrifying . This , if nothing else , puts Django in the running for Tarantino 's best film , the first one in which he discovers violence as horror rather than just spectacle . When Schultz turns his head away from a slave being torn apart by dogs , Django explains to Calvin Candie — the plantation owner played by Leo DiCaprio — that Schultz just isn 't used to Americans . " 
