Nature reigns in a harsh environment

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2016)

As of now, I've watched it 3 times and I plan on seeing it one more time Plot: A furtrapper is left for dead by members of his own team after being severely attacked by a grizzly bear. At first sight, it might appear this is too simplistic and yet it makes for gripping storytelling.
What makes this compellingly unique? First off, Alejandro González Iñarritu and Emanuel Lubezki have created a visual oddisey unlike anything I've ever seen, Each frame symbolically represents spiritual awakening and yet it paradoxically separates itself from being one by positioning the human element at it's core in which our sinful nature encompasses our hatred, the need to survive,making a means (in which capitalism is cemented itself) which in turn gives us the relationship between man vs man, man vs nature eventually leading up to us being the weaker element in comparison to the vastness of the universe.
Secondly, Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom hardy are at their absolute best embodying the aforementioned elements. We witnessed Leo's odissey of recovery through the vastness of nature believing it means him encountering God though as it meant redemption given that a handful of flashbacks serves the idea of him regretting what he had turned into and what mankind has turned into, nonetheless he thinks avenging the death of his son portrays the very notion of spirituality and yet Tom Hardy's notion of survival is by making of means out of anything embodies the very opossite of Leonardo Dicaprio and yet you emphatize with him given the harsh conditions he is going through. Hardy even thinks of God as a squirrel, it is clear that this character has an understanding of life in terms of making his way through a harsh envirnment yet he is so naive and disingenous about his way of life.
This juxtapostion leads to a very grueling fight between this two main characters in which nature embraces its own very elements seeing this men fighting for nothing. We are mere dust, there is no time for redemption, no spirituality. As Leo stares into the camera we realize that his journey meant nothing to him and yet it reaches cosmic significance.
A phenomenal masterpiece!