Review by Drugo
Submitted by Drugo on
Identity is the central theme of this second westerns and eighth film of the great film director.
In the united states just emerging from civil war, the distrust towards everything and everyone reigns supreme, despite our characters try in a lot of ways to assert their identity by showing documents, warrants and letters.
From the large snow-covered spaces (which remind us of "The Great Silence"), through which the coach is carrying four shady characters, the action moves to a mountain refuge where it will remain until the end of the movie, and where other "bastards" will add to our travelers.
During the entire time, the tension rises slowly but inexorably and the action, which takes place both in the foreground and the background, maintains constant the ambiguity of the refuge's guests and increases the distrust they feel towards each other.
The fantastic, dialogue, In a typical Tarantino's style, which don't spare a critique to the racism of the classical american westerns, come to the end only when the firearms begin to talk.
All this, seasoned with an intoxicating aesthetic and enjoyable film quotes.
Trantino, as usual, starts from ultra classic situations and creates something completely new (in this case a western / thriller / crime / legal thriller / splatter) and makes it so personal as to ensure that there can be no doubt about the authorship of the work.
The result of all this are three hours of great cinema very engaging and flowing fluid as if they were only one.