The Hateful Eight is a great cultural film
Today everything is turned inside out. The old, classic “beautiful” and “decent” cinema can no longer cope with its educational function, because we live in a different cultural context, when hostility in society, the volume and strength of frustrations are off scale, and nothing is able to restrain them - neither culture, no law. In the face of extreme risks of self-destruction of mankind, The Hateful Eight is exactly the film that needs to be watched and horrified.
Have you watched Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, or haven't you made up your mind? Perhaps you were shocked by what is happening on the screen, and the question of why to shoot such a movie haunts you. No gripping plot, no obvious meaning in a monotonous series of murders - one incessant cruelty and rivers of blood. Nothing human.
And yet this film is worth watching. But not with the usual look, which does not allow us to discern the full meaning of this picture, but with the help of Yuri Burlan's System-Vector Psychology.
Eight scum under one roof
The film is set at the end of the 19th century after the end of the Civil War between North and South. The country is just recovering from a massacre in which more US citizens have died than in any other war they have fought. The life of people has not yet entered a peaceful course. Gangs of robbers and murderers roam the country, on the one hand, and bounty hunters, ready to do anything to get a big jackpot for the capture, on the other.
A blizzard drives for a day under one roof notorious bandits and lovers of easy money: bounty hunters John Root and Marcus Warren, the newly-minted sheriff Chris Mannix, criminal Daisy Domergue, Ruth's captive, and her four accomplices, whose goal is to save a woman from execution by hanging. They will stop at nothing to snatch her out of the hands of justice. But those who “crave just punishment,” but in fact - money, are no better.
Throughout the action of the picture, the heroes methodically interrupt each other. Throughout the film - bloody vomit, blood-stained floor and spreading brains. Contrary to the canons of classical cinema, according to which a beautiful woman should be in the film, Daisy Domergue is disgusting and does not cause the slightest sympathy. By the end, no one survives.
"There is not a single positive character in the film: everyone is sadists, murderers, rapists, and everyone is shown as a complete degenerate, without a brain, completely meaningless." *
The question involuntarily arises, where does such inhuman cruelty come from in a person? It is not even clear what the heroes of the film share. It's just that the Civil War has just passed and it is no longer clear who is right and who is wrong. People kill by inertia, because taboos that have been torn down no longer allow being human.
When culture bans break down
War is, first of all, murder. In the picture, we see confirmation of the thesis of system-vector psychology that war breaks off cultural restrictions from people that are necessary for the best survival of society, as well as the most important human taboo on killing a neighbor, which is thousands of years old. This destroys a cultured person in us and evokes from the depths of our psyche a pre-cultural cannibal person.
It's not even an animal. This is in a sense worse than an animal, because the latter acts according to its survival program and does not experience any feelings like hatred of its neighbor. The animal is perfect and balanced with nature. And a person is out of balance with nature and begins to want more than is needed just to survive. And another person stands in the way of this more. There is a desire to kill him, extremely cruelly, in order to achieve some of his goals. Or even just like that, because you didn't like it, thus relieve your own frustrations and tension from dislike.
One of the consequences of the war is that not everyone succeeds in returning to their former human form.
In peacetime, a crime is just as disgusting, although its causes lie in individual distortions of mental development or frustrations from a person's non-realization.
Why such a movie?
The problem, not everyone realized, is that modern cinema often romanticizes the criminal way of life, setting false goals for entire generations.
Tarantino's film is distinguished by the truth of life. He is genius in that he carries with him cultural challenges that classic films cannot cope with today.
He shows the crime as it is. This movie should not be confused with thrillers, where a sick fantasy, divorced from real life, makes the owners of the visual vector emotionally sway.
“… Behind a rough form, not always a rude content, and in special cases, as with the genius Tarantino, a monstrous form can hide a refined taste filling, which, like a healing balm, is swallowed along an attractive shell by not quite healthy mentally and very unhappy people, giving them a chance for recovery with special content … *
It is a healing film because it heals the soul, unlike films that romanticize crime in general and crimes against morality in particular. These include "The Godfather", which once had huge box office receipts, the film "Intergirl", which pervertedly influenced a whole generation of women in post-perestroika Russia, the series "Brigade".
The creation of a romantic halo around crime contributes to the loss of moral and ethical restraints in society. This has an extremely negative effect on the collective psyche, because it causes the growth of psychopathologies. People begin to perceive crime positively. Their guidelines are changing: stealing is cool, throwing a sucker is normal, getting it at any cost is the top of implementation.
In a modern leather consumer society oriented towards material wealth, success and individualism, this can become a value system. It's scary when they talk about a criminal "talent", a "professional" thief or a "brilliant" killer. There can be no higher criminal realization. It is always a pathology that destroys both man and society.
“For the modern generation, it is Tarantino's film that is the best movie. "Eight" shows exaggeratedly, as it is, all the inner blackness and hopelessness of what has been inflated with a romantic veil. It devalues freaks, criminals, scum - everything that is elevated to the rank of modern landmarks, creating an incredible effect from the opposite. *
Looking at the unsightly heroes of the film, the viewer willy-nilly takes with him the impression, the feeling that war is not a parade in beautiful uniforms and not an exciting western, murder is not a spectacular cowboy shot. War and crime are disgusting, scary, painful, disgusting.
Today everything is turned inside out. The culture created by visual measure as a way of limiting hostility through empathy and affirmation of the highest value of human life is no longer coping with its function. Just like the previous one, the classic “beautiful” and “decent”, cinema can no longer cope with its educational function, because we live in a different cultural context, when hostility in society, the volume and strength of frustrations go through the roof, and nothing is in able to contain them - neither culture nor law. In the face of extreme risks of self-destruction of mankind, The Hateful Eight is exactly the film that needs to be watched and horrified.
And starting from this sensation, ask the question, what can we offer instead of the previous principle of life "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"? What do we need to do to stop this senseless murder that has made humanity shudder for centuries with horror?
Yuri Burlan's system-vector psychology has an answer to this request: knowing oneself and another person, by reducing the level of hostility, can radically change the situation both for an individual and for society as a whole.
Now there is a demand for mass psychotherapy, for good conditions, which are the result of the correct realization of their innate properties and desires, the feeling of security and safety created in society. To understand what realization consists in, you need to realize yourself. To overcome social hostility, it is important to understand the other person. We have everything for this - the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan and online trainings, which allow revealing the human psyche with mathematical precision.
Apparently, in order for us to quickly realize the need for change, there are films like The Hateful Eight.
“The film is not for people with a normal psyche, but only for those who are not quite mentally healthy or for those who have the skills of mental stability and balance. The film is massive and curative for the masses, mentally weak, unstable, pathological and disoriented … It is impossible and necessary to watch it”. *
* The text uses quotes by Yuri Burlan
