Synopsis
Revenge proves its own executioner.
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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I Lived, Bitch: The Movie
If Leonard DiCaprio doesn't win The Oscar; I will be more done than a white girl that went to Starbuck just to find out that they were all out of triple espresso mochaccino lattes.
Another look allowed me to focus more on the alternate reading that's suggested by the title. (Spoilers ahead.)
You could make the case that Glass dies shortly after he lies down next to the body of his dead son. (There's a particularly potent cutaway shot to the sun piercing through the cloudy sky.) From that point on, Glass is a specter haunting this land and the people in it - he resists "letting go" and following his wife and son into the afterlife because he instead chooses revenge. And as long as he does so, as long as he ignores their calling to him in those visions, he's cursed to live in this in-between space (hence his ability to survive…
60/100
The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a masterclass in portraying a sense of an untamed yet euphoric setting. Its grimy and increasingly mythical landscape contrast with serene Digital images, showcasing a vast environment with a conflicted aura of inhospitable wilderness and the tantalizing search for greed and power. With Emmanuel Lubezki at the helm as DP, and armed with the Arri Alexa 65, the result is a gigantic adventure with a scope as wide as its constant lens choice, but sadly miscalculated when it comes to core story components.
Its ultimately disappointing to think, after all the horror stories involved in production, that something so misguided can result from such obvious turmoil, but most of the issues…
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Q. Why did the Native son need to die?
A. Because the white man needs drama.
Q. Why did the Native wife need to die?
A. Because the white man needs drama. And an exotic dream guide.
Q. Why did the cute Native who catches snowflakes on his tongue need to die?
A. Because the bad guys need to be real bad and real racist because the sensitive white man needs drama.
Q. Why did the Natives attack the injured, helpless, solitary white man even though they need information about a lost daughter he might (probably does) have?
A. Because the white man needs drama.
Q. Why did the Native daughter need to be raped?
A. Because the white man…