Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film pitches Leonardo DiCaprio against nature,bears and Tom Hardy in a tale of revenge, retribution and primal violenceIt’s man versus bear. And bear wins. Or does it? Early reports of Alejandro González Iñárritus intestine-straighteningly brutal and beautiful new western thriller The Revenant bear understandably focused on one fairly extraordinary scene. Nineteenth-century fur trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass, or played by Leonardo DiCaprio,encounters some bear cubs in an eerily soundless forest and then hears the snuffly-wet sound of their parent behind him, a grownup grizzly who has gained a broadly correct impression of Glasss overall intentions. The ensuing scene is one of horrifyingly primal violence, and a brilliantly conceived CGI-reality cluster,during which I clenched into a whimperingly foetal ball so tight that afterwards I virtually had to be rolled out of the cinema auditorium. Related: The Revenant: first reactions to DiCaprio thriller suggest Oscar potential Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com