Itās a good follow up to Inglorious. Another counter-history, long scenes of dialogue and tension when Brad Pitt goes to check out the Mansons, an explosion of violence at the end which is glorified and also comical, wish fulfilment for the director.
When I saw Inglorious I couldnāt quite understand the controversy and the allegations that Tarantino had gone spiritually bankrupt. What was he supposed to do, forgive the nazis? I thought Inglorious was fundamentally a tragedy, in that this didnāt happen. It was also very clever like the end when Brad Pitt looks at the camera and carves the swastika onto the audience. After Once Upon a Time I can understand the criticism a little better, in that Tarantino spends all his time fantasising about horrific acts of violence against bad people that he thinks deserve it. Everyone does that a bit but they donāt all glorify it (Iām reminded of the Psalms where the speaker fantacizes about smashing her enemies babies brains out on a rock).
An utterly shite film from start to finish with scenes clean lifted from classic movies and just lengthened out and made shit. Tarantino needs someone to edit at least an hour off the self indulgent shit that he writes and directs these days and they might come up with a passable film.
Hateful 8 wasnāt just a dud though, it was what he wanted. A horrible film with horrible characters, a horrible story and superfluous violence.
Was like Roald Dahl in a downphase.
