A quick review on The Hateful Eight

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2016)

Thanks to the 70mm film the director takes advantage of a very large frame, a peculiarity used with some tricks on the focus, by making the viewer see what he (Tarantino) wants him to see. The camera is fixed most of the time, a kind of style similar to the great Sergio Leone. The power of the images of Tarantino is not the same of the ones by Leone, but it reminds me of those, for example in the first long and very slow sequence of the crucifix, and also in the use of music.
Ennio Morricone, sublime as always, gives Tarantino his compositions, that don't stick perfectly with the images (like in other Morricone's films), but they do it with the plot and with the sense of anxiety and mystery.
The characters are perfectly built. In a way that only Tarantino knows, they are given the right depth, not too much for the shadow of mystery, and not too little in order to make the viewer remember of: the nice hangman, played by Tim Roth, that looks like a relative of the previous Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained); the captive, Jennifer Jason Leigh, that gets more unpleasant every time she opens her mouth; the mythical anti-hero played by Samuel L. Jackson, a kind of character that seems recurring in Tarantino filmography that may deserve a long separated consideration; and the others.
The Hateful Eight is a clear demonstration of how the love of Tarantino for the writing is increasing. He has even said that he could write theater plays once he will end with movies (we truly hope he never will).
Someone said that, especially in the first part, the film was full of political, long and boring dialogs that made them hate the movie. I think Tarantino's dialogs are never boring and, even if political (maybe the only thing I didn't like of the movie), built on a language that you can easily remember, a language near to the real society and not to the heroes of Hollywood.