Fear Factor + One. Perfect. Shot. ≠ Tarkovsky

If Leonard DiCaprio doesn't win The Oscar; I will be more done than a white girl that went to Starbuck just to find out that they were all out of triple espresso mochaccino lattes.

At first I thought Iñárritu was simply doing a parody of Malick and Peckinpah. Then I realised that this was meant to be taken seriously.

My brain is struggling to process complete sentences after this film, but I'll give it a try...

I really don't wanna oversell this, but "The Revenant" is one of the most stunning, visceral moviegoing experiences I've ever had. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is working on another level as a storyteller, channeling his pure, auteur-driven vision onto the screen. It's visually astounding (Emmanuel Lubezki is a force of nature behind the camera), intense, and emotionally fulfilling. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy also turn in some of the best work of their careers.

Few movies luxuriate in misery and nastiness for such a poor pay off. It’s themes of identity, family, revenge, justice, and survival all spiral out of control during an unnecessary rape scene, and the movie never closes the loop it started. It’s lodged in between being a pulp revenge genre film, and a showy and shallow prestige picture - but it whiffs at both. The lensing is often distracting and it urges viewers to look how miserable this experience is. Because it’s so often shot in these extreme close-ups, it becomes exhausting rather than empathetically effective. Where Lubezki’s long takes feel immersive - emotionally and situationally - in a movie like Children of Men, here there’s something keeping the audience at an arm’s length of artifice. I may give it another shot at some point, but for now I’ll just scoff st the scene of Leo carving “Fitzpatrick killed my boy” into a snow bank as if it meant anything.

I should have watched this film at the cinema.

Humphrey B Bear steals Leo's whiskey and he's fuckin pissed about it so he bottles him but then Humphrey fucks his shit up

So the hero suffers through all kinds of hell imaginable. Frankly, between this and The Passion of the Christ, I didn't find much difference.

Ινιάριτου κόφτο ρε φίλε!

초반부터 곰과의 사투 씬까지는 정말 영화다웠다.
하지만 갈수록 너무 다큐로 변했다.

본능의 골짜기 사이를 더 깊숙하게, 더 격렬하게.

Leonardo your the greatest actor i see

revenant (noun): a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.

definitely one of the most beautiful looking films i’ve seen. and along with that score...breathtaking

the final shot though (!!)