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\nLeo is having a really, really bad day.<\/p>\n
\nLeo is having a really, really bad day.<\/p>\n
Director Alejandro G. Inarritu returns after his colossal success with last year\u2019s Birdman<\/em>, and The Revenant<\/em> is a whole new experience!<\/p>\n In the 1820s, during an expedition on the Native American frontier for hide, a hunter accompanying them has his son murdered and is abandoned by his peers, buried alive. He now has to survive the icy winter gripped wasteland without food or weapons so he can enact his revenge.<\/p>\n Inarritu has crafted a superbly visual experience with The Revenant<\/em>. The film is a hard edged, bleak experience, but every single shot (I am not even kidding around here) is beautiful and when seen on the big screen, it envelopes and immerses you. Inarritu\u2019s drifting, dreamlike steady-cam and crane work allows the audience to float through the dense frost laden forests and ice floes. The cinematography is gorgeous, truly reinvigorating cinema\u2019s nature as a visual medium.<\/p>\n Leonardo Di Caprio performs his heart and soul out on screen here, initially as no nonsense hunter Hugh Glass and as a father with a troubled past and conflict with his colleagues, only to be savagely mauled half to death by a grizzly bear. This is only the beginnings of his problems! The make-up and survivalist realism that befalls poor Di Caprio is guaranteed to make you wince and shiver in anxiety; he gets his throat torn, he eats the marrow from carrion just to survive, he is utterly destroyed! The story itself, unlike 2015\u2019s Birdman<\/em>, is remarkably simple! It is a revenge movie. But revenge is often best served cold, and with simplicity. The rest of our cast, especially Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson (he is getting around these days, and he is excellent!) all perform wonderfully well and everyone excels under those endless, sweeping shots.<\/p>\n But, and there\u2019s always a but, although this is purely personal, it is a bleak movie. While I could see myself buying it someday, I don\u2019t see myself sitting down to watch it often at all! It is an exhausting experience, arresting you for its whole duration until you are spent and just able to think: \u201cWow, that was intense\u201d. I would love Di Caprio to get his Oscar\u2026 it is a worthy performance and an awesome film (the film deserves all the awards it is given!) I was simply blown away by the technical achievement shown. It annihilates ventures from Nolan and other modern directors\u2026<\/p>\n [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leo is having a really, really bad day. Director Alejandro G. Inarritu returns after his colossal success with last year\u2019s Birdman, and The Revenant is a whole new experience! In the 1820s, during an expedition on the Native American frontier for hide, a hunter accompanying them has his son murdered and is abandoned by his… <\/p>\n
\n(a cynical person would say all of this is a huge metaphor for his desire to win that elusive Best Actor Academy Award\u2026)
\nThe crazy juxtaposition is this cruel fate and horridly painful journey of our luckless protagonist upon the background of such lush visuals, both cruelly cold and beautifully relieving. Indeed, a lot of the film\u2019s terror is soothed with Inarritu\u2019s sweeping camera capturing the natural beauty of the world.<\/p>\n
\nThat is no detraction from the film; it is a perfect piece of film-making hands down. I just imagine audiences aren\u2019t going to be ready for what\u2019s in store for them. The final evidence that it is perfect film making, is that though it has a simple plot and harsh reality, I didn’t find the 156 minutes dragging.<\/p>\n![\"64892-5-0\"](\"https:\/\/cinemacocoa.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/64892-5-0.png?resize=260%2C50\")
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