Review of The Revenant (2015) by Ismail A — 22 Mar 2017
The film is absolutely empty but of stunning visuals (thanks to the brilliant cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki). There is nothing really but a protracted meditation on violence and revenge for the sake of violence and revenge.
There is something terribly claustrophobic when you get trapped in that masculine, sexist logic of violence, it becomes a self-defeating logic that inevitably ends in your own death or the brutalization of your body and your moral agency.
Profoundly disturbing and almost erotic in how it glorifies that logic and makes it unfold over more than two hours of film.
This review of The Revenant (2015) was written by Ismail A on 22 Mar 2017.
The Revenant has generally received very positive reviews.
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