By: Trina

Trina — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:57:14 +0000

But the rain is Tess and the fire is Jo.

By: Abe

Abe — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:23:16 +0000

Hello!
In regards the Revenant: I agree that its very single-minded and turn-free story structure can be dull, but one of the things I liked about it (and which I thought you yourself might enjoy) is its both metaphorical and literal treatment of capitalism as fatal flaw. The strongest part of the film for me was the world, how it was this middle point between wilderness and the beginning of its tarnishing: the easy killing of animals for pelts; that incredible moment outside the camp where natives flock like children in the third world, trying to sell junk and beg for money in a world that didn’t have either a decade before. Part of the pleasure of the movie was how well it recreated a place that seems impossible to access.
I talked with someone who was turned off by the ceaseless revenge driving the story, but I don’t think we’re supposed to see the savagery and careless destruction as a good thing. I think we’re supposed to find it sad, the ruination of a beautiful and spiritually rich world by the wants of men and thirst for wealth/power/revenge/sex etc. It’s supposed to be sickening because it’s about that despoiling. That’s why the final fight between Leo and Tom Hardy is so starkly brutal, just the two of them wrestling, biting each other, ensuring that both of them will die because of this dark lust they both have. If we’re meant to root for Leo, it’s only because we’re complicit in that mutually assured destruction and because we know that ultimately his desired but ultimately already-lost allegiance with a spiritual world is no longer tenable in the seedy reality of capitalism. He wishes he could bring those things back, as Tom Hardy says himself, a little on-the-nose at the end, but knows that they’re forever lost, just like the wilderness.

By: Mary R

Mary R — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 06:04:20 +0000

I was reading this post aloud to my beloved whom, as soon as I got to the part about your J. Crew coat being a bearskin coat that DiCaprio wore in The Revenant, sprayed her water all over the floor in an unprecedented moment of laughter. “Isn’t this the film where he’s burned alive? Eaten ALIVE?” she laughed after she cleaned up the mess.

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