The Revenant is a remarkable story in a film that crafts survival and adventure into a bleak season in North America. Leonardo DiCaprIo stars as the tough, frontiers man, Hugh Glass -and along with a group of fur trappers of beaver, the story will challenge the trappers with the terrible forces of wild nature and hostile Indians to pursue their trade in harshness of landscape.
After a ferocious attack by a grizzly bear, and left for dead by a treacherous member of the team, ( played by Tom Hardy, ) Hugh Glass will defy the forbidding odds to struggle to survive, and return home to take revenge .....the revenant is the man who comes back from the dead....
In many ways, the lengthy film prompts my thoughts to some very classy films - I keenly name them: 'The Black Robe' ; 'The New World' ( Colin Farrell ) ; The Russian film 'Andrei Rublev' ; Akira Kurosawa's 'Dreams' ; and the beautiful and visual revenge western 'One Eyed Jacks' with Marlon Brando:. Although, maybe not as outstanding ( in comparison ), the film is very close as an epic: of a cinematic journey of a masterclass of film making?
The filming may not appeal to those who are reluctant to watch a snowbound wintry forest in slowness of motion in its character of nature -exquisitely slow, in thoughts and in masochism- but I found it to be exciting in a harrowing, but brutal, true tale to reveal the heart and spirit of mankind in survival, and to search for that wonderful compassion that will arise in sanction of mercy.
The film was directed by Alejandro G. Inamitu ( Birdman ), and cinematic vision by Emmanuel Lubezki ....in blizzard white, I embrace winter's grace.....
