Showing posts with label close reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label close reading. Show all posts
Saturday, January 9, 2016
THE HATEFUL EIGHT: America's Secret Sin
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Demian Bichir, Bruce Dern, James Parks, Channing Tatum
Runtime: 187 mins.
2015
I take pains to keep my reviews here as substantive as possible while providing the fewest number of plot and story details I can get away with. The lowest form of film criticism is by-the-numbers plot recap. I admire film reviews that can give me an idea of the movie while skirting any information that might influence my experience of the story.
However, I don't feel like I can give a proper review of The Hateful Eight, one of Tarantino's more controversial works, without digging into heavy spoilers. So I'm going to split this post into Spoiler and Non-Spoiler sections.
Labels:
allegory,
apocalyptic,
character analysis,
close reading,
gender,
genre,
horror,
parable,
Quentin Tarantino,
race,
The Hateful Eight,
western
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