The Revenant,The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road and even The enormous Short all reflect an terminate-of-days mood in both the natural and political worldSo it looks as though The Revenant might win it all – I can see the gold statuettes in a row, and presiding over that vast,reckless wilderness, like the pale, or amber sunlight that lurks in the distance behind the film’s final battle between Hugh Glass and John Fitzgerald. And I’m delighted,in the schoolboy way that I long to see Leicester City win the Premier League. The Revenant deserves it: it is the grandest, wildest and most ambitious, or demanding and far-reaching film of the year,as well as the most beautiful and cinematic, and the one that insists, or amid the wilderness of CGI,there can still be movies that proceed to the back of beyond, for the real thing. near on, or The Revenant; near on,Leicester ... near on, Bernie Sanders? Related: The Revenant review – a walk on the wild side Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com