It’s safe to say that Quentin Tarantino is one of, if not the, most successfully controversial filmmaker in the past twenty years or so. With (now) eight films under his belt, he has yet to produce an uninteresting or unprofitable film. His use of dialogue and mood is practically textbook. His movies have started some careers and famously revitalized others (John Travolta, Pam Grier, and Bruce Willis come to mind). He has managed to take a pastiche of the retro and manage to reassemble the pieces to seem something innovatingly fresh, even as their execution straddles the fine line between cinematic brilliance and sadistic exploitation. Some call him an auteur; others, a hack. Yet one thing remains certain: A new Quentin Tarantino release merits attention. Tarantino’s latest, The Hateful Eight, not only merits it, but boldly demands it. Eight is Tarantino on steroids. All his cinematic bag of tricks is on display in exaggerated bas relief for better or worse. It is a melding of cinematic styles that both seductively entices as it viscerally repulses. It is his most passionate yet disturbing piece of cinematic art to date. Make no mistake...art, it is.
While the story is
told in six chapters, its development is more appropriate to a three-act play.
Set in the blizzard-ravaged mountains of Wyoming approximately a decade after
the Civil War, ex-war hero turned bounty hunter Major Ma rquis
Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) hitches a ride on a stagecoach run by O.B. Jackson
(James Parks) with fellow bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell),
who is transporting his live bounty Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to
hang in the town of Red Rock. They also come to pick up a man by the name of
Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) who not only may or may not be the Sheriff of Red
Rock, but also harbors some deep seated prejudice against black folk. When the
blizzard makes further progress impossible, they seek refuge at Minnie’s
Haberdashery, which is occupied by the likes of Joe Gage (Michael Madsen); General Sandy Smithers (an ornery Bruce Dern); Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the
ostensible hangman of Red Rock; and a Mexican by the name of Bob (Demian
Bichir), who claims to be running the place in Minnie’s absence. As the storm
grows harder, tensions run higher. Not everyone is who or what they seem, and
it becomes clear as time passes that not everyone, if anyone, will get out
alive.
One of Tarantino’s
hallmarks is taking unsavory characters and making them, if not sympathetic,
then at least relatable…infusing them with something approximating the
redemptive. Nothing of the sort can be found in this film, the western
equivalent of Jean-Paul Sarte’s No Exit and Dante Alighierif’s Inferno by way of an Agatha Christie
whodunit. The setting is the key, as the majority of the film takes place
within the confines of the haberdashery. One of Tarantino’s greatest strengths
as a storyteller has been his ability to create tension in even the most
innocuous of circumstances. Here, the tension is as taut as piano wire.
Combined with the judicious use of noise and minimal use of soundtrack, coupled
with the crisp visuals brought on by the 70 mm ultra Panavision process, the
film engenders a stifling, vertiginous sense of claustrophobia ratcheted to an uncomfortable
degree.
The main theme in
this film is “subversion”, which takes its form in both characterization and
expectation. The film plays with audience assumption, then turns same on its
head in entertainingly sadistic fashion. Don’t expect to root for anyone. There
are no true protagonists or antagonists; they’re all interchangeable within
their respective interpersonal dynamics. Each character is, to varying degrees,
as sympathetic as they are repulsive. More to the point, while not exactly a
divine comedy, Tarantino’s wickedly subversive sense of macabre humor is more
“in your face” than ever here. It’s bloody and gory, but the
violence is incongruently stylized yet minimalist, and filled with gallows
humor. The sadism comes primarily from the characters’ motivations. They revel
in the horror they inflict. They’re horrid, loathsome, yet completely
fascinating.
For the first time
in any Tarantino production, Samuel L. Jackson receives top billing honors, and
it’s much deserved just for his work in this film alone (if not for his
combined body of work in Tarantino’s back catalogue) for the hypnotic portrayal
of his character epitomizes the film’s subversive nature; but his is not the
only sublime performance. Kurt Russell seemingly revels in his portrayal
of the “The Hangman” and his macabrely comedic interactions with Leigh as the
even more unsavory and uncouth Domergue. Russell and Leigh’s chemistry is one
of the film’s highlights as they play off each other antagonistically but in a
weird, old married, spousal abuse couple kind of way (sharing a film for the first time since 1991's Backdraft).
Tim Roth tries his best to channel Christophe Waltz in a part that, based on
the script and direction, was most likely written with the latter actor in
mind; however, Roth is gamely entertaining even as he effects what is
essentially a Waltz impersonation (given that The Hateful Eight takes place in the same universe and time period
as Django Unchained (2012), it’s just as well Waltz wasn’t
or couldn’t be cast). As for the rest, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins, Michael
Madsen, Lee Horsley, Channing Tatum(!)…all the actors deftly realize their
characters, even though Demian Bichir’s “Bob” borders on caricature (but then,
given the movie genre Eight emulates,
the representation is sadly appropriate). The most surprising performance next to
Jackson’s belongs to Leigh. A case can be made that this film is extremely
misogynistic (the disposition of the supporting female characters, played by
actresses Dana Gourrier, Zoe Bell, and Belinda Owino, would bolster that
argument); however, even here Tarantino pulls a bait-and-switch which Leigh’s sublime performance effectively nails. Even when just sitting in the
background, you feel her presence. She’s a ticking time bomb, and when the
explosion comes, it is chillingly fierce.
She was once considered one of the promising new actors of the late '80s/early '90s,
Her performance proves that potential has not been diminished by time.
All the characters
are compelling on their own merits, but none of which are anyone you’d wish to
share a beer with. But perhaps the most important player of the film
never appears on screen. In a feat not even Clint Eastwood could perform, Tarantino convinced Ennio Morricone to score an(almost) original score for a
western for the first time in 40-plus years (and the first original score for a
Tarantino film ever). Morricone, however, himself thwarts expectation by presenting a
score unlike any he had ever produced for the spaghetti westerns which made his
fortune, while at the same time seamlessly fitting the film. Instead of
majestic, sweeping epic orchestrations, the film’s main theme, which dominates
the score, is low-key, foreboding, sinuously suspenseful, tensely nihilistic,
and macabrely humorous all at once. For all of his talents, the mood Tarantino
establishes would be diminished without Morricone’s contributions.
The Hateful Eight
is a polarizing film. It is tantalizingly fascinating even as it’s abhorrent to witness. It's idiosyncratic and iconoclastic. The
characters, to varying degrees are just, plain nasty; but through Tarantino’s lens,
gleefully so. It’s evil. It’s so good,
it’s evil. It leaves you feeling dirty
but not wanting to wash it off. It’s practically three hours
long, but leaves you begging for more. Tarantino
attempts much in terms of style, themes, and presentation, and in varying
degrees succeeds in each one. Even more
than Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2, this is Tarantion’s most epic film to
date. It ensnares you in its presentation,
and stays with you long after the end credits roll. This film encompasses
everything Tarantino represents as a filmmaker. So, if you love Tarantino, you’ll
love this film. If you hate Tarantino, you’ll really hate this film. There is
no in-between. It leaves such a visceral
impact in the way that powerful art in any medium is supposed to engender. In
all honesty, there’s much to ruminate over the film that cannot be extrapolated
in a mere movie review. It's either his best film or his worst depending on your sensibilities. Suffice it to
say, for a film to do all of that, it merits…demands…viewing.
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