People without stories are not qualified to die

Brent 2022-04-22 07:01:02

As a child, I once suspected that I was mentally twisted. Because when watching a movie, I always silently hope that the bad guy can defeat the good guy, and it will be awesome to the end. It pains my heart to see Denzel get killed on a training day, seeing... It's a pity that there are very few movies where the bad guy has the last laugh, and there are some breakthroughs in killing the wolf, which makes me very happy.
In my eyes, bad guys are always charming. With a set of firm values, they never follow the rules and live such a free and easy life. The little humanity revealed in the burning, killing and looting is especially exciting. Therefore, I have always fantasized about a movie where all the awesome bad characters get together, there is no good or bad, there is no moral judgment, whoever is more awesome will live to the end of the movie.
Unexpectedly, the dream finally came true. The Hateful Eight was tailor-made and fulfilled all my fantasies. The whole story, until the subtitles appear, does not know the ending at all. Moreover, there is no protruding character in the play, so that he has the aura of justice and let him enjoy the special favor of evil. Watching the whole movie, you will hardly be obsessed with a certain character with the aura of the protagonist. What you are obsessed with is the whole story, the sense of reality at the moment of life and death.
I believe that every character in it will be liked by someone. They are all people who have stories in stories. They are cruel and vicious, but almost all of them are moved by that old woman calling me. It's life and death, what kind of story you leave behind, that's the most important thing.

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The Hateful Eight quotes

  • Oswaldo Mobray: [lecturing Daisy] John Ruth wants to take you back to Red Rock to stand trial for murder. And, if... you're found guilty, the people of Red Rock will hang you in the town square. And as the hangman, I will perform the execution. And if all those things end up taking place, that's what civilized society calls "justice". However, if the relatives and the loved ones of the person you murdered were outside that door right now. And after busting down that door, they drug you out in the snow and hung you up by the neck, that, we would be frontier justice. Now the good part about frontier justice, is it's very thirst quenching. The bad part is it's apt to wrong as right!

    John 'The Hangman' Ruth: [chiming in] Not in your case. In your case, you'd probably have it comin'. But other people, maybe not so much!

    Oswaldo Mobray: But ultimately what's the real difference between the two? The real difference is me, the hangman. To me, it doesn't matter what you did. When I hang you, I will get no satisfaction from your death, it's my job! I hang you in Red Rock, I move on to the next town, I hang someone else there. The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man. And that dispassion is the very essence of justice. For justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice.

    John 'The Hangman' Ruth: Amen!

  • Oswaldo Mobray: [interrupting an escalating argument] Gentlemen, Gentlemen, I know Americans aren't apt to let a little thing like an unconditional surrender get in the way of a good war. But I strongly suggest we don't re-stage The Battle of Baton Rouge during a blizzard in Minnie's Haberdashery...