"Eight of the Evil": showing the country's "evil"

Fabian 2021-10-13 13:07:04

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The Hateful Eight ": Demonstrating the "evil" of the country On the surface, "The Hateful Eight" (The Hateful Eight 2015) shows the hatred in the hearts of the eight evil people, but in fact, the roots of the country seem to be found behind the hatred. The main purpose of the film’s director should be to show the "evil" of the United States at that time. Otherwise, the film would not end with "white hell" after showing the "human evil", because "white hell" is undoubtedly a symbol of the white world. The root cause of this situation should be the crimes that this country has committed against black people. Next, we might as well explain the country’s “evil” issue in conjunction with the dialogue between the characters in the film.

Bounty hunters and the judicial system. Hunters hunt animals, but bounty hunters hunt people. In order to make up for the lack of judicial power, the United States used this bounty hunter system to hunt down criminals. Although becoming a bounty hunter also requires official documents, which can prevent hunters from taking the opportunity to seek revenge and indiscriminately killing innocents, the pursuit of criminals "regardless of life and death" is undoubtedly unreasonable, because this is equivalent to authorizing a person The death penalty can be executed on another person without due legal procedures, and once the wrongdoing is killed, it is difficult to hold the hunter criminally responsible. However, the state simply disregards individual human rights in order to ensure the judicial justice it wants; it only considers the legitimate purpose and ignores the unreasonable means. This is obviously a kind of "evil" of the state. Of course, perhaps in order to prevent wrongful killings, some hunters bring their mouths back to court. Even though the bounty hunter John Ruth we can see in this film is not based on this purpose, the film clearly implies that this seems to be encouraged. the behavior of. For example, the gang member who claimed to be Osvaldo Mowbray expounded on the issue of "frontier justice". He believed that this method of solving the prisoner's justice through the victim's family could easily be regarded as a kind of "violence". "Behavior", obviously, he is imitating the hangman to speak from the standpoint of the court, and of course the court is more willing to provide justice through his own judgment. Therefore, when the act of apprehension is encouraged, hanging is a kind of "evil", the torture that is generally forbidden in a society under the rule of law, and this kind of "encouragement" also inspires evil thoughts in people's hearts. Si was willing to leave every time he watched the prisoner being hanged. At the same time, the public execution of the prisoner by hanging caused a certain degree of legal deterrence, but the resulting terror and indifference were the result of the country’s “evil”.

Women and legal ethics. Daisy Domoge is the only woman among the eight evil men who was sentenced to hang for her murder. Hanging this woman is certainly a way for the country to achieve justice. It is also the same Mowbray. He explained that the core of this kind of "justice" that the state wants to achieve is "dispassion"; at the same time, he also explained that the way the state achieves this kind of justice is not due to the gender differences of the prisoners. It will be different. This involves a legal and ethical issue: can human compassion be a reasonable reason for the different application of punishment methods? Not only Major Marques Warren, the big villain who is also a bounty hunter, but also the new Sheriff of Red Rock Town, Chris Manix, who is clearly identified as a "dog bastard" by the film, also think that it is a bit wrong to hang a woman by hanging. Reasonable. And Mowbray, who was still speaking in court, defended this, saying that unless you “invent a gun that a woman can’t use, you can hang a man and you have to hang a woman.” Obviously, this also implies a certain state of the country. "Evil", because when this "evil" even makes the wicked feel uncomfortable, it can still operate like a machine. In this case, what reason does Domoge, who was involved in the murder, put down her gun to stop killing?

The three villains and the Civil War. Sheriff Chris Manix got into the bounty hunter's carriage and had a long conversation with the three villains in the carriage. The core of this conversation was to discuss the American Civil War. Chris accused Warren of escaping from the Wellenbeck POW camp and set fire to 47 recruits. Warren blamed this on the "war"; when Warren accused Chris's father of the "Manix plundering" When the Legion ransacked black towns, Chris responded that “whites are safe only when blacks are scared”; Warren believes that the Southerners launched the war to enslave the blacks, so he believed that his reason for participating in the war was to kill. Get rid of the Southerner, for this he can do whatever it takes to achieve his goal. Regardless of whether their purpose and means of war are ethical, just by their dialogue, especially the dialogue between Warren, who represents the interests of blacks, and Chris, who represents the interests of whites, we can see that they are full of hatred. The main reason for this hatred is that black Americans did not get the same citizenship rights as whites at that time, and the root cause of this situation is still in the country.

General, Warren and North and South compromise. The man who claimed to be Mowbray once said, "Americans are not accustomed to letting such trivial things as unconditional surrender hinder a perfect war." "In other words, in order to end the war as soon as possible, the United States allowed the southern army to conditionally surrender. Obviously, this is a compromise, and this compromise already existed when the US Constitution was formulated. When the U.S. Constitution was passed, several southern states joined the Union on condition that the slavery system was continued; obviously, this compromise laid the roots of the Civil War. Then, although the Emancipation Proclamation and the Federal Army won the war, the blacks still did not enjoy full citizenship rights until the 1960s. The perfect war that Mowbray said was of course at the expense of black rights. This is why there is still so much hatred between whites and blacks after the American Civil War. It can be seen that regardless of Warren's dialogue with the sheriff or the dialogue with the general, the root cause of their hatred is human nature. Originally, black people were slaves in the United States, and they suddenly became treated like slave-owners and whites. White’s usual hatred of blacks could not be changed overnight; when the state gave such a mentality to institutional connivance, it said It cannot be overstated that it is responsible for the hatred between black and white. General Smither did not forget to discriminate against blacks even in difficult situations, which brought him destruction. Warren's hatred of Smither was not caused by discrimination that day. In the Battle of Baton Rouge, the general inhumanely executed a group of northern black soldiers he had captured. Obviously, Warren was based more on racial hatred. Gun.

The Domoge Gang and the Rule of Law in the United States. A country under the rule of law generally allows gangs to exist, which is a manifestation of civil liberties. The Domoge gang has only four remaining to rescue the gang members. Obviously, this means that the Mexican gang has little place in the United States. Could this be a reason for them to do bad things? There should be, because Warren revealed that their gang members each have a bounty of at least $10,000. Therefore, to a certain extent, there should be reasons for the country's imperfect rule of law for gang members to commit such evil. Of course, this is by no means an excuse for violence.

Black and white hell. The film clearly compares the white world to the hell of black people. Not only the sheriff, Ruth, generals, gang members and even the captive Daisy's disgusting attitude towards Warren is very obvious. As a member of the American Hussar and a court employee, he should still have some social status, but he still has to hide a letter from President Lincoln that he forged by himself. He did this because this letter was at a critical moment. It can play a role in disarming whites, and when he said that "the only time the black is safe is when the white has no weapons", we can clearly understand the meaning of "white hell". (Text/Slate Planting Flowers Monday, December 28, 2015)

PS. Thank you to the Chinese subtitles of this film!

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  • Iliana 2021-10-20 18:59:40

    Next year’s Oscar’s best original screenplay should be this movie, which incorporates all the advantages of [落水狗][無淨樂兒][姜戈] and even [Kill Bill]. For Quentin fans, there is everything you want here. element! Few screenwriters are like Quentin, who write all the characters in the group portrait so vividly. The structure of the chapter style and the narrative are also perfectly combined. It is so exciting that three hours is too short! ★★★★★

  • Zola 2021-10-20 18:59:41

    The western detective film of Zhang Hui style, the foot fetish has turned into an egg fetish, and the dialogue skills are still mellow. As for the overall level, you are happy.

The Hateful Eight quotes

  • Six-Horse Judy: Hi-ya, Minnie!

  • Daisy Domergue: [after Warren hits her in the face for spitting a huge wad on his "Lincoln letter"] Is this the way niggers treat their ladies?

    Major Marquis Warren: [angrily makes a snowball] You are *NOT* a GODDAMNED *LADY!*

    [he throws the snowball at her]