Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu is a true genius of movie
making, especially when it comes to photography and editing. This was
acknowledged from the Academy as well with all major „oscars” going to his
masterpiece 2014. drama-comedy „Birdman”.
Where Mexican director stopped with „Birdman”,
he continued with „The Revenant”. Located in a vast exterior on northern US and
Canada, this survival drama brought us even more ingenious camera from double
„Oscar” laureate Emmanuel Lubezky and some really breathtaking action
sequences and wide shots.
The
script is in the background, consisting of standard segments: revenge, good and
bad inside people, savagery. The thing that separates „The Revenant” from the
classic western genre is that Inarritu finally succeeded in a century-long
cinemamaker's dream, to totally whipe out the border between the viewer and the
movie itself. And he did it without much CGI and expensive sets. He did it with
his camera, his cuts, wide angle lenses and through fascinating roles achieved
by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy (almost a certain „Oscar”). The music is
also minimal, as well as the dialogue itself, completing director's trademark full
control of the entire flick that begins from the production, continues through
the writing of the script and culminates with the leading place behind the camera.
„The
Revenant” may easily be the most perfectly shot movie ever and definitely one of the best US flicks of 2015.
