 On the matter of historical accuracy , Christopher Caldwell wrote in the Financial Times : " Of course , we must not mistake a feature film for a public television documentary " , pointing out that the film should be treated as entertainment , not as a historical account of the time period it is set in . " Django uses slavery the way a pornographic film might use a nurses ' convention : as a pretext for what is really meant to entertain us . What is really meant to entertain us in Django is violence . " Richard Brody , however , wrote in The New Yorker that Tarantino 's " vision of slavery 's monstrosity is historically accurate .... Tarantino rightly depicts slavery as no mere administrative ownership but a grievous and monstrous infliction of cruelty . " 
