{"id":1258,"date":"2016-01-29T02:46:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2019-02-26T23:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:09:50","slug":"the-hateful-eight-2015-a-film-by-quentin-tarantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"‘THE HATEFUL EIGHT’ (2015): A FILM BY QUENTIN TARANTINO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In turbulent, uncertain times, the adventures of our lives can intersect and overlap, entangling one\u2019s fate with the destinies of others.<\/p>\n

What do a pair of bounty hunters, a female prisoner, an unseemly posse\u00a0of outlaws and gunslingers, and a former war general have in common?\u00a0In writer\/director Quentin Tarantino’s latest outing, they are forced to seek sanctuary in the\u00a0confines of a rustic Haberdashery during the course of a raging, punishing blizzard.\u00a0What unfolds is a bloody, stomach-turning smorgasbord (part western, part political satire, part detective mystery) that is as much about the traumatic aftermath of the American Civil War as it is about the sadistic exacting of vengeance, the thirst-quenching pursuit of capital punishment, and shameless displays of machismo-drenched misogyny.<\/p>\n

In this pressurised and claustrophobic setting, historical hangovers, racial tensions, and masculine anxieties collide, spark and explode in a grisly, messy standoff. Heads are blown off. Limbs are severed. Bodies convulse and violently vomit\u00a0blood. One character even has his manhood subdued by the pulverising blast of a bullet.<\/p>\n

Recalling his directorial debut,\u00a0Reservoir Dogs<\/em>\u00a0(1992),\u00a0The Hateful Eight<\/em>\u00a0throws together individuals with chequered pasts, clandestine agendas and paranoid temperaments. Confronted by circumstances not of their choosing and beyond their control, they form uneasy alliances where personalities scrape, friction mounts, and any opportunity to forge binding connections\u00a0is severely\u00a0truncated. It is only a matter of time before the body count rises and corpses pile up.<\/p>\n

Even attempts to\u00a0build bridges and address\u00a0the reprehensible\u00a0legacy of the past, evoked by the unlikely rapport between the erstwhile Union officer Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and his Confederate counterpart Sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), comes at the expense of an entrenched cinematic commonplace: the brutal execution\u00a0of a shrewd, defiant, and gleefully unrepentant female antagonist (Jennifer Jason Leigh in a show-stealing turn as the delightfully named fugitive Daisy Domergue).<\/p>\n

\u2018I never expect to win anything at any festival I\u2019ve gone to where a jury has to decide\u2019, Tarantino proclaimed when he won the Palme d’Or<\/em> (Golden Palm, the highest accolade at the Cannes film festival) for Pulp Fiction<\/em> in 1994, \u2018because I don\u2019t make the kind of movies that bring people together \u2014 and you\u2019ve got to find the one movie that brought them together \u2014 I make movies that split people apart\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Hateful Eight <\/em>seemingly\u00a0confirms Tarantino’s assertion:\u00a0the shameful history of\u00a0slavery in the United States,\u00a0its lingering and turbulent effects on\u00a0race relations, and the depiction of violence against women\u00a0are all incendiary\u00a0and fiercely debated topics.<\/p>\n

‘I want to do movies that deal with America\u2019s horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies’, Tarantino declared\u00a0in 2010. ‘I want to do them like they\u2019re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it\u2019s ashamed of it, and other countries don\u2019t really deal with because they don\u2019t feel they have the right to.’<\/p>\n

Treating ‘serious’ and historically sensitive material through composite, layered genres and the gleeful play of\u00a0carnage and\u00a0comedy, machismo and\u00a0meditations on\u00a0mortality, is always a risky and controversial undertaking. But if\u00a0cinema can engender\u00a0a rethinking about\u00a0the\u00a0past filtered\u00a0through\u00a0the\u00a0crossing of\u00a0boundaries, then\u00a0The Hateful Eight <\/em>is\u00a0arguably\u00a0one of Tarantino’s most\u00a0politically resonant\u00a0and<\/em> critically divisive films to date.<\/p>\n

With its novelistic structure, inter-temporal narrative and stunning, excessive aesthetic (explosive, stylised violence interwoven with wintry Wyoming splendour), The Hateful Eight<\/em>\u00a0revisits and ridicules the grandiose, sentimental but irresistibly\u00a0captivating\u00a0historical fictions\u00a0that desperate, disdainful\u00a0men concoct, exchange, live\u00a0by, and\u00a0ultimately die for.<\/p>\n

Like the\u00a0faux correspondence\u00a0from Abraham Lincoln that\u00a0Major Marquis Warren carries close to his heart and strategically\u00a0shares\u00a0with\u00a0others\u00a0\u2014 eliciting both reverence and ridicule, depending on the reader in question\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a motion picture is an open\u00a0text\u00a0that\u00a0simultaneously unites and divides audiences.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Varga Hosseini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In turbulent, uncertain times, the adventures of our lives can intersect and overlap, entangling one\u2019s fate with the destinies of others. What do a pair of bounty hunters, a female prisoner, an unseemly posse\u00a0of outlaws and gunslingers, and a former war general have in common?\u00a0In writer\/director Quentin Tarantino’s latest outing, they are forced to seek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}