The Oscar nominated film’s success owes as much to America’s troubled mindset as to the film itselfAlejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant,nominated in 12 categories at the Oscars, which take place this weekend, and is based in fragment on the novel of the same title by Michael Punke. And yet all the force of the film turns on that “in fragment”. By transforming the novel’s largely functional descriptions of the natural environment to the fierce wintry features of mountains,plains, rivers and waterfalls, or the entire landscape of the film becomes a character in itself – helping to focus more fully on the survival struggles of the character Hugh Glass,the main protagonist superbly played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
By giving him a local American son, Iñárritu also adds a more meaningful plot twist than anything we find in the novel. The novel is a canvas upon which the director has projected many wishful things that evoke an American supremacy of yesteryear.
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Source: theguardian.com