60/100

The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a masterclass in portraying a sense of an untamed yet euphoric setting. Its grimy and increasingly mythical landscape contrast with serene Digital images, showcasing a vast environment with a conflicted aura of inhospitable wilderness and the tantalizing search for greed and power. With Emmanuel Lubezki at the helm as DP, and armed with the Arri Alexa 65, the result is a gigantic adventure with a scope as wide as its constant lens choice, but sadly miscalculated when it comes to core story components.

Its ultimately disappointing to think, after all the horror stories involved in production, that something so misguided can result from such obvious turmoil, but most of the issues…

I was going to just knock off a smart-ass little one liner … ‘Hiring Mr. Lubezki does not a Malick film make’ … but I’ve been writing too many of those lately, and Alejandro Iñárritu deserves more respect than that. Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel are all films I’ve seen, enjoyed, and respected. I was on the ‘loved’ side of the divisive Bird Man.

I do believe in the nut of that quip I was going to post. I think Iñárritu began to change with Birdman, and the biggest evidence of that change was saying goodbye to long time cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and striking a new relationship with Chivo.

Rodrigo Prieto is no slouch, but he’s a cinematographer that…

دوربین‌ش همچنان همان است [ارجاع: یادداشتِ فیلم «بردمن»] بعلاوه‌ی موسیقیِ متنی که خیلی خوب روی تصویر نشسته بود اما مجالِ خودنمایی را به تکنیکِ لوبزکی باخت، حضورش اندک است و فیلم هم بیش از حد طویل و رئال .
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«خدا» در اثر جایی [نبضی] ندارد، «انتقام» از آنِ او نیست، از «گلس» هم -آنطور که باید- نیست، بیشتر مالِ کلیشه است. رابطه‌ی «گلس» با پسرش کافی نیست، کافی برای «حس». فلشِ بک های رویاگونه رابطه ای نمی‌سازند نه قبل از مرگِ «هاک» و نه بعدش؛ در واقع علاقه می‌بینیم اما وابستگیِ وجودی (عشق) خیر؛ نه به گونه‌ای که «انتقام» زنده و مهمتر از آن سرحال باشد.
فیلمساز همچنان متحیّرِ تکنیک‌ش است به همین دلیل مجال برای «غریزه» بیشتر از…