Revenge in God's hands

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2016)

Another great film from Alejandro González Iñárritu who is clearly an outstanding director. Beginning with his early "Amores perros", his films are always make you think about some paramount life laws.
This film is a veracious Western with a tale of revenge. It describes a story of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), an American frontiersman, fur trapper and explorer, miraculously survived after the attack of grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellows. From the first frames, this movie gets you into what is happening like a rough river Missouri in which neighborhood the main events of the film were placed. Overcoming incredible obstacles, he gets over great distance almost crawling in order to avenge John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) for the murder of his son. In its entirety, this film is rather weakly filled with emotions. But in general, various incidents and scenes, characters and symbols, all of this is quite clearly creates the atmosphere of resistance and desire to live. Apparently, visuals are playing the most important role in this creation. Perhaps the best operator of modernity Emmanuel Lubezki completely immerses you in an atmosphere of wild nature. The camera clouds up, gets wet, covered with frost or blood, together with the main characters. It really blurs the border between subject and object. In point of fact, the visual structure of "The Revenant" uses all the tricks Iñárritu used earlier in "Birdman" - the narrative is interspersed by flashbacks, dreams, hallucinations, the character meets the ghosts of the past to help him see the way, and so on. And it does serves its purpose. Separately want to mention successfully used Kubrick-style symbols, including biblical. For instance, there is a small link in the film, when antagonist said that all the will of God. After half of the film protagonist answered him, that revenge in God's hands. This bunch is seems to be very important in this film since it reveals its central idea.
In sum, the film turned out to be quite strong and tough. Of course, it will go down in history as one of the most powerful films. It is necessary to watch the film exclusively at the movie theater, all the basic capacity is concentrated on the visual aspect.
8/10.