For justice delivered without dispassion, is always in danger of not being justice.

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2016)

The essence of this movie is neatly captured in the bar scene between the Hangman and the Bounty Hunter, John Ruth. The finishing turn out of The HateFul Eight all boils down to this conversation about justice and moral.
First, lets get the story straight. A bounty hunter is on his way of bringing a woman to the town where she is to be executed for her crimes. The thought of this being society's civilized way of bringing her to justice is brought up by a man that happens to be the woman's coming executioner, the Hangman. He then compares this scenario to one where her victim's relatives comes to the cabin where she is, and murders her brutally. He asks the difference between these two scenarios, and tells that the second scenario might be more "thirst-quenching", but might not be the right thing to do. To this the bounty hunter responds that it is the right thing to do to her, but maybe not to others.
In this scene, that takes place relatively early in the movie, Quentin Tarantino pretty much discusses the ending of his movie. In the end, the woman is not brought to the town for execution, but is relentlessly hanged by her throat from the cabin ceiling by her excited killers, and a great deal of other men are killed alongside with her.
But the message not only holds for the woman being hanged. Also her fellow men lying dead on the floor all have bounties on their heads, and might just as well be in her situation. So the true question is whether or not the means by which a result is met are irrelevant, if the result is still the same. The same holds true for the other, innocent, characters that die in this movie. All people die, and is it really that important when and how this happens?
Maybe it is, since Tarantino chose the more brutal way of telling the story. After all, this is, as the Hangman said himself, more "thirst-quenching". And isn't that what the audience really wants to see? Maybe this is just Tarantino's satirical way of showing his audience what the filming industry has nowadays become: a mediocre pastry without any depth only designed for pleasing the viewers flat desires.
But we all know that isn't true, since the way the moral of this story is being told comes close to being a masterpiece.