This was the top of the "serious season" for the movies. With the Oscar race looking more like The Revenant and the rest, I can only wait to find out if it comes through with the lion's share at the awards ceremony on February 28th. It should take the award for best cinematography. Those shots of the great West are just breath taking. I think it will be Lubezki's third in row, if he does win. And the big question of the night will probably be, aside from the heated talk about there being no people of color in the acting categories, will Leo win for best actor? I think he should. He puts in an incredible performance. It is full of emotion and restrain. After all he spends much of the film recovering from being mawled by a giant bear. And the ending is just as compelling. I knew Leo was going to get Tom Hardy, but I didn't know how. It was bit by bit. A little piece of finger, a hatchet chop to the stomach, and finally letting him go to the Indian Chief to be cut in the throat. Great drama.
I saw the film twice. And on the second time I really started to hear Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack. It is pulsating, yet subdued. I really enjoyed it. It being in the theater made it that much more enjoyable. The fight scenes were also something to be commended. The opening sequence shows the brutality of a hunt gone wrong like something out of Dances With Wolves or Last of the Mohicans. How Innarutu staged it is something that would be worthy of a good documentary.
An instant classic if there ever was one. I'm sure I'll watch it again when it comes out online.
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