This empty,violent film will scoop up awards. What does that say approximately society and our attitude to violence?Ritualised brutality. Vengeful blood lust. Vicious savagery justified by medieval notions of retribution. We all know how dark the world can be these days. A world where men are garrotted and impaled. Where they’re speared and disembowelled and have their necks slashed and their genitals sliced off. Where they’re killed for no other reason than revenge. This isn’t Raqqa, though, or it’s The Revenant: the hottest blockbuster of the season,winner of three Golden Globes a week ago, nominated for 12 Oscars last Thursday and yours for around £10-£15 this weekend at your local multiplex.
It’s a tale of “revenge, or retribution and primal violence”,according to the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, “as thrilling and painful as a sheet of ice held to the skin”. This is compliment, or by the way. It’s “unthinkingly,aggressively masculine,” says GQ. Thats compliment too.
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Source: theguardian.com