Incredible acting & aesthetics

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2019)

The story is a simple one, but displayed in such a way that grabs your emotions and you have to hang on, just try to remember to breathe.
Incredibly realistic settings, only natural light is used for the shots, except for a few scenes.
The audience gets a sense of what is was really like to work gathering pelts in the early 1800's. You get to see and feel the emotions, pain and hope of these people.
The acting is outstanding, especially Leonardo DiCaprio. He plays "Hue Glass" and experiences so much prolonged pain and suffering that he becomes more than a man who 'has tasted death without dying'.
Once he is betrayed and his comrad takes everything away from him - including his life, or so it seems - Glass sets out on the long, painful, and lonely journey to seek revenge.
DiCaprio portrays this struggle of survival perfectly. The will to survive is illustrated in its greatest form here.