Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Sin City, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained are some of the films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Today I will talk about The Hateful Eight, the last film directed by Tarantino and that premiered in 2015.

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Year: 2015 Category: Western. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern.

Plot

After the Civil War we found a caravan full of different characters: a bounty hunter and his prisoner, a soldier of the Union turned into bounty hunters, and a southerner who claims to be the new sheriff. The vehicle has to deviate because of a snowstorm. These individuals will remain in a room called Minnie's Haberdashery while waiting for the snowstorm to end. There they will meet four other characters: a Red Rock hangman, a cowboy, a confederate general and a man who takes care of Minnie's business while she is away. With such different origins, the tension between them will soon emerge, and it will not be too clear that everyone will leave that building when the storm is over.

Opinion

The Hateful Eight is a western, but very different from all those that have been filmed. It keeps classical elements of the genre, such as clothing, the way to resolve conflicts, the idiosyncrasies of the people of the time. However, it evokes a thriller or a mystery novel. Its protagonist is a bounty hunter with a keen sense of survival, who behaves like a detective, improvised but insightful.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, the wounds remained open to the American population. The barbarity of slavery still admitted discussion. It is the historical backdrop of the film and an argument engine that causes some scenes to advance, and also adds story lines between the protagonists. The characters of The Hateful Eight are positioned in favor of one or the other side, but this does not prevent them from creating alliances between them. Here there are no good or bad, even position the right side in the racial discussion, does not make any protagonist better person, nor redeems it from its past. Or your present. As the title of the film says, none of these eight types has led an exemplary life, none is better than the previous type.

The film begins by showing us the snowy landscape formed by the mountains and steppe of Wyoming in winter. Soon these images give way to a long, almost static plane. While the camera moves away, we glimpse in the background the progress of a stagecoach. The scene would not give much of itself, but the music of Ennio Morricone is raising the tension and the perfect framing of the diligence makes it work perfectly. However, this scene has a more important function than it may seem.

The first scene warns us and prepares us for what comes next. It also relaxes us. We should get comfortable in the cinema seat because the film does not follow the accelerated rhythm of conventional cinema.

The way in which the film is filmed immerses the viewer much more into the plot. The technical quality over the three hours is close to perfection. The director has given us a film in which you can enjoy each shot. The frames are marvelous, as are the approaches and camera blurs to focus attention on one protagonist or another as the scene requires. It's a slow movie, but a movie buff will enjoy flat to flat. It is loaded with long scenes and precise camera movements. It's a more complex way of filming the scenes, instead of using ten cameras and cutting and pasting pieces of 3 seconds.

The most outstanding feature of the film is the unfolding of events, to anyone who has seen enough westerns will be extremely unusual. All westerns are developed throughout almost the entire outdoors, except those sequences that take place in canteens, brothels or forts, but this film does the opposite, since what happens in the story takes place inside a cabin.

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Score

7/10

The Hateful Eight is the movie that he would have liked to recommend to Tarantino when he was working in the video store, and if he had, who am I not to recommend him? the film is entertaining and must be seen.