There are many parallels in the film that strengthen the fabric of the narrative, though ultimately I am not convinced the whole thing hangs together, at least not at first viewing (and I am not sure I could watch it again.) We have two fathers, one searching for his daughter and the other searching for revenge for his murdered son. The love Glass has for his family is a dominant theme of the film, but the protagonist's grueling journey of revenge for Hawk's death almost overwhelms it. Later on, as Glass drags himself across prairies and through forests, she appears to him. From the beginning of the film, when we see flashbacks to the attack that killed Glass' wife, her spirit is with him and their son through the sounds of her voice.
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When he can finally walk, he steals a horse from the French trappers who perpetrate their own form of evil.Ī "revenant" is the spirit or soul of a dead person who appears to the living. Covered with a layer of snow, he takes what he can and drags himself toward the fort 200 miles away where the U.S. He drags himself to the body of his son, seeing images of his deceased wife and hearing words of wisdom she would say. Bridger, feeling a pang of conscience, leaves his canteen with Glass. When Bridger comes back to camp he asks about Hawk but only watches as Fitzgerald drags Glass into a grave and partially buries him. Then with the almost paralyzed Glass looking on, the trapper stabs Hawk and hides his body. Hawk won't leave his father, and Fitzgerald and young Jim Bridger (Will Poulter) agree to stay behind.įitzgerald waits a day or so and tries to suffocate Glass. Andrew Henry (Domnhall Gleeson) to put Glass out of his misery, but Henry offers extra wages to anyone who will stay with Glass until he dies and then bury him. Glass is barely alive when his men find him. It is a horrid attack, made worse when Glass wounds the bear. But he is attacked by a mother grizzly bear trying to protect her cub.
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Glass goes ahead to find a trail to the river where they have a boat so as to avoid the Indians. Glass, his son and a few of the men survive. The chief steals many of the pelts and goes to the camp of French trappers to sell them and demand horses to continue his search. Their chief Elk Dog (Duane Howard) is searching relentlessly for his daughter Powaqa (Melaw Nakehk'o) whom he believes was kidnapped by trappers. More than 30 men are killed when Indians attack. An ex-criminal with debts, he is also antisocial and self-serving. John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) is the worst of the lot. Their Hugh Glass is accompanied by his grown son, Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), whose murdered mother was a Pawnee Indian. In the early 1820s a group of about 45 American trappers are camping in a wilderness forest in what is now Montana.
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As Glass, Leonardo DiCaprio is brilliant, and Iñárritu continues to explore human connectedness and death as in several of his previous films ("21 Grams" and "Babel.") Smith base their script in part on the novel by Michael Punke and add more characters and plot lines to tell a bigger story. In this retelling of the life of the real Hugh Glass (and the explorer and guide Jim Bridger as a young man), writers Iñárritu and Mark L. This is just a sample of what Alejandro G. The natural and unnatural in a tension that hemorrhages blood and life. Whispers from beyond yet near and signs of hope. Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) struggles to stay warm during a vicious winter in "The Revenant." (Copyright © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)