The Revenant – Leonardo DiCaprio Teaches The Art of Survival

Bear Attack in The Revenant, courtesy 20th Century Fox

The Revenant, a 20th Century Fox movie is an exquisite tale of gore, featuring Hollywood born actor Leonardo DiCaprio as fur trapper Hugh Glass (1780-1833), fearlessly going where no man has gone before, truly to hell and back.

This is an extraordinary filming feat and a totally immersive and quite horrific experience.

It surely must be DiCaprio’s best movie performance to date, career defining, a larger than life biographical tale of American frontiersman Hugh Glass, best known to history and mentioned in a letter as surviving a severe mauling by a grizzly bear.

The movie is 156 minutes long, full of extreme carnage and brutal robust physicality, which lasts from the defining opening scene to the finale, the screen filled with multitudes of men covered in dirt and grime and with greasy nit filled hair that makes you literally squirm.

DiCaprio’s majestic performance is worth every acting accolade he can be granted, showcasing the extraordinary power of the human spirit to survive beyond what we may think is humanly possible.

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Carolyn McDowall, The Culture Concept Circle