Lately, I was watching Quentin Tarantino’s new film called “The Hateful Eight”. The name apparently is selected in contrast to the film “The Magnificent Seven” shot in 1960. Tarantino’s film can be considered an “anti-western”, the events in the old film are overly “romanticized” while in the new film, they are presented in dense colors of equally exaggerated “black humor”. Naturally, analyzing Tarantino’s film is not my problem. It seems to me everything is “worked” at the highest professional level, with brilliant mastery of creative staff so that the film director and screenwriter’s favorite “blood rivers” are not perceived as excessive naturalism. But those who are going to watch this movie, please, do it also from another point of view as to “how the American state was getting established after the civil war.”
All the main characters (“The Eight”) are perfect scoundrels and rascals and cannot enjoy the sympathy of the audience. However, some of them gradually during the development of events, perhaps in the very embryonic form obtain certain ideas about the State and Law. And the culmination of it is the end when the war veteran who has taken the lives of many guilty and innocent people and the suspicious person (one black man and one white man) representing the sheriff of the Red Rock, prior to releasing their last breath decide not just to kill the last alive criminal but to hang him. As required by the Law.
Maybe the states begin getting established when similar changes are taking place in the soul of some of the scoundrels?
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
