One of the initial images in “The Hateful Eight” — held for many a minute as a stagecoach approaches in the background — is a concrete statue of Jesus hung on the cross. It’s driven into as godforsaken a patch of middle-of-nowhere ground as you could imagine. Despite its sturdy craftsmanship, it seems to sag under the weight of relentless, driving snow — an implication that not even Jesus’s compassionate teachings could survive the harsh elements of nature … or harsher-still elements of human nature.
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight
One of the initial images in “The Hateful Eight” — held for many a minute as a stagecoach approaches in the background — is a concrete statue of Jesus hung on the cross. It’s driven into as godforsaken a patch of middle-of-nowhere ground as you could imagine. Despite its sturdy craftsmanship, it seems to sag under the weight of relentless, driving snow — an implication that not even Jesus’s compassionate teachings could survive the harsh elements of nature … or harsher-still elements of human nature.