The Revenant

In 1820, hunters sell and Exchange furs for a living. Hugh Glass, an experienced hunter is
forced to leave his camp, as well as his entire teams. While fleeing for their lives, Glass is
attacked by wild bear and thus begins its struggle for survival.

Directed by Alejandro Iñárritu and produced by Regency and Rat Pac, the film is extremely
beautiful and well done.

The plans are divine. The whole film, in terms of photography, is absolutely magnificent: subtle
colors, stunning landscapes, brilliant compositions, and an abysmal soundtrack produced by
Ryuichi Sakamoto that transports the audience to another dimension. Honestly, this is a
cinematographic work that I haven’t seen in a while.

As you would expect Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t disappoint and did an excellent job in his
performance, immersing himself in such a way in his character that it makes one forget who is
being witnessed, a phenomenal performance whose defects are very difficult to point out.

It becomes extremely easy to enter the sensory field of Hugh Glass through his expressions,
gestures, sounds and all his body language.

Theoretically, this film deals mainly with the thirst for revenge, in which revenge and love for
one’s own family is everything that motivates this resistance to death, but, nevertheless, the
focus of the film isn’t there, but in everything else.

The film drowns us so much in the reality of the times of 1820 that it becomes extremely easy
to understand where all the most brutal and wildly controversial visions of the present times
come from. At a time when in fact it was governed by the law of force, represented in this
brutal struggle for survival that tests the physical limits of the human body like never before.

In addition to installing this climate submerged in adrenaline in a wild and natural

environment, the film also portrays the rivalry between Native Indians and Americans that
takes the form of racism, at a time when skin color meant more than words and greed was, at
bottom, the foundation that sustained life. Iñárritu breaks this concept a little and gives
everyone a more updated view of how a society should act.

Like a train without stopping, determined and objective, you have the feeling that nothing and
nobody can stop the main character. His determination can even be frightening, able to
overcome any obstacles to obtain the desired revenge. As a negative aspect, it should be
noted that the story itself wasn’t very rich, with some flaws, even very simple and predictable.
It’s hardly fascinating and monotonous but still appealing and captivating enough to make this
a good film.

To conclude, this is a film that you should certainly see, if it isn’t for history, or for audiovisual,
because it’s definitely a work of cinematographic art and deserves to be appreciated as such.

And well, it may be that this this time Oscar will end up in the hands of Leonardo DiCaprio, well
deserves it!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0