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38 January 14, 2016
‘The Revenant’ punishes DiCaprio for Academy love by Ryan Syrek
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ithout spoiling whether quently redundant, even on a visual level. survivalist/temptingNot that cinematographer Emmanuel bear-treat Hugh Glass Lubezki doesn’t do his damndest to (Leonardo DiCaprio) make every shot look gorgeous. It’s just, survives The Revenant, there are only so many ways to show we can still talk about one climactic snow-covered rocks and blood. shot. DiCaprio, having been maimed in DiCaprio will be nominated and all maimable ways, stares directly into likely win an Oscar for this performance the camera, seemingly shattering the — already winning a Golden Globe — fourth wall by sheer force of will. Teeth in a notorious case of an actor winning grit, lips sneered, his eyes scream, “Is this for the accumulation of his performances enough? Huh? Is in a soft year. this finally Because, the enough? Daniel truth is, while Day Lewis didn’t the shoot was sleep inside a likely physically f**king horse like demanding, actI just did! Give ing isn’t really me what I am supposed to be owed!” We are about watching down to it, rich folks get America: We give dirty and lose Leo the statue or weight. The he becomes a “performance” Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance is mostly super villain. here is mostly grimacing and screaming in The Revenant. Those are our just grimacing choices. and screaming. The Revenant is director Alejandro Hell, we spend nearly three hours with González Iñárritu’s latest visually specGlass, and all I can tell you is that he tacular, intellectually lazy artistic showloved his woman and son and he’s really, off. In the early days of America, Glass really accident prone. I don’t know if leads a fur trapping expedition through Glass is a good man or a bad one, a soltreacherous territory. When a bear makes dier with regret over American treatment of Natives or a man who simply fell in him a chew toy, in an epic scene we’ll love. He’s blank. See through. Glass. talk about later, the wilderness explorer As such, The Revenant is like finds out that man is more treacherous Iñárritu’s last effort, Birdman, in that it’s than nature. Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), a a movie that convinces you it’s more sigmumbling, half-scalped jerk-faced jerk, nificant and important than it is, when wants to leave Glass to die so he won’t it’s really just pretty and kinda dumb. In slow them down. Glass’s son, Hawk fact, the lasting legacy of the film for me (Forrest Goodluck), understandably isn’t going to be anything that happened objects. So, obviously, Fitzgerald guts on screen. In the lead-up to the film’s Hawk and kicks Glass into a shallow release, rumors swirled on the internet grave. Too mad to die, the brutalized that DiCaprio actually got “raped by a father sets out to avenge his son. bear” in the movie. Of course, this is This vengeance mostly involves nonsense. But the rumors grew so scenes of DiCaprio crawling desperately strong, a studio exec had to officially say over various objects. He crawls over that “Leonardo DiCaprio does not get rocks. He crawls in piles of snow. He raped by a bear.” I guess there’s one crawls inside a dead horse. DiCaprio’s thing left Leo hasn’t tried to win an belly was on the ground for so much of Oscar. the shooting, for several months, he was This review first appeared in The legally considered a snake. The long, bleak sequences are meant to convey the Reader of Omaha, Nebraska. harrowing nature of the survival story. And they do. But they also seem freBoulder Weekly