The new movie by Quentin Tarantino, entitled The Hateful 8, is an anti-racist, anti-war, masterful movie, directed amazingly, with
eloquence,thought and soul, in the best moment of its creator.
He has removed the endless violence, at least this continuous violence which we had become addicted to in his previous films, emerging his depth, maturity and penetrating glance, on the history of America and the Western world in general. And not only that. Touching with particular mastery the human relations through metaphors and ideas into a frantic confession and heartbreaks of life of his characters. Law and illegality in an enduring game.
An on the road story, which is the director’s obsession, this time not on a paved road, but on the snowy mountains of Wyoming, and not in a modern built vehicle, but instead a stagecoach carrying a bounty hunter, John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason). Ruth wants to reach Red Rock city to have Daisy stand trial, and to collect his reward. On their way, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel Jackson), a black former soldier of the North who has also become a bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) a Southern rebel who claims to be the new Sheriff of Red Rock. As they were travelling to reach the town, a sudden blizzard forces them to stop at a shelter, and this is where the brilliant American director starts to portray the nature of his characters, the entire human fate, the secret deadly betrayal plans of each other. Like a stab in the back, obsessions, destructive ideas emerge, floating around, defining the behavior of the characters.
He plays with all types of cinematography, but maybe also with the theater?
Imaginative, deeply thrilling, grotesque, with inconceivable and dynamic dialogues, Quentin Tarantino writes a script that eliminates the myth of a false prosperity of a world, organised and of opposing interests, or who try to be organised through the scenario of the film, just as in History. Bloodthirsty gangs, beyond their ideas and beliefs, in a game of mutual extermination. Seems ultimately inevitable, a world that hates to hate, a world that hates one’s neighbor, a world that hates oneself.
The Hateful 8, then. But they are not only hateful these 8, they are simultaneously lovely. The actors of the film, are all infallible, without excluding anyone, from their amazing interpretations. They give their most inspiring way to the performance of the characters and their odd behavior, and of course our souls could not but be touched by the music of the legendary Ennio Morricone.
This Quentin Tarantino movie must sweep away all awards existing in our world of cinema, including Samuel Jackson who deserves a couple or more distinctions, for a role and a character who will remain for many years in the thoughts of those lucky people who will enjoy this movie with all their senses.
text Manos Chronakis
