Following "Birdman", Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez's new film "Wild Hunter" is about a love and a relationship with Indians. The son’s British mercenary (Leonardo DiCaprio) was attacked by a bear while evading the Indians, and abandoned by his companions. He survived the extremely cold and dangerous wild and started a story of revenge. . With Birdman, the director became the biggest winner of the last Oscar. Won four awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Photography and Best Original Screenplay. Only a year later, the director brought his ambitious work "the revenant" again. The director's ambition is even worse than that of the previous Birdman. The film continues to follow a large number of one-shot shots that rely entirely on natural light to shoot, and the fact that all scenes are shot in the wild at minus 30 degrees icebergs and wild forests shows that the director's challenge this time is compared with the previous one-shot shot. The technical difficulty in the end is beyond a considerable level. The English name of the film can be literally translated as a person who has come back from the dead. However, after watching the whole film, you will find that the protagonist's suffering for survival is also a story of the birth of a flesh led by the soul.
The director chose a fairly simple narrative this time. For a long time in the whole film, only the gasps of the starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the minimal lines and the relationship between the characters, made the film present an American movie. The characteristics of minimalist narrative emphasized by the writer David Mamei. All plots are driven by the actions of the protagonist. Due to a change in the storyline, the protagonist loses the ability to speak, and all the plot promotion on the main line can only rely on actions and the profound eyes and decrees of Xiao Li. The film's photography also achieved the realization of this narrative impulse. A large number of panoramic ultra-wide-angle rotating lenses make people feel immersively the magnificence of nature in the cold wilderness of the north of the United States. The director himself admitted that the biggest protagonist in this film is nature. Of course, this cannot be done without the credit of the photographer who has topped the Oscar for best photography for the second time.
Of course, this film also has a gossip topic that is more concerned by the public, whether the protagonist Leonardo DiCaprio can rely on this breakthrough performance to top the Oscar for best actor. Regardless of the arduous shooting environment of the film and the story structure that tests the perseverance and expressive power of the actors, the profound transformation of the character's soul on the theme is also one of the major challenges. After the trial screening, the affirmation of the major media reviewers seemed to herald another success in this challenge. However, whether or not to succeed in the Olympics in one fell swoop, in the Vanity Fair of the Oscar competition, the influence of many factors has made the result bewildering. However, even though American actors generally strive for professional improvement and value performance in the performing arts, Xiao Li is still one of the most amazing model workers. Perhaps this time a small golden man can finally comfort his years of hard work.
Evaluating this new movie "Wild Hunter" may be the biggest difference from the past in that you can't fully use the storyline, of course not due to spoiler considerations, but more likely that a lot of the praise of the film will be attributed to him. Visual expressiveness. Reminiscent of the photographer’s last Oscar best photograph, Gravity, the two films are similar in that they use a considerable visual presentation to express an impossible story. At the same time, the still beauty and the vastness of everything are expressed in the lens. When people are deeply in the stagnant time and environment at the time of the event, they will naturally experience the vitality, vastness, etherealness, and other deep reverberations of the soul.
Compared with another award-winning film "Survival in the Wilderness" about humans fighting against nature, (even the name is a bit like) "Wilder Hunter"'s chronological background brings thinking about the origin of American culture. The background of the story is set in the era when the first Europeans who arrived in the Americas relied on hunting wild animals in exchange for wealth in the northern Americas. During this period, the largest export product of the Americas was animal skins. It was known that the discovery of gold and oil in the west led to the export tilt to other industries. Apart from nature, the protagonist’s greatest enemy is the military officer and native Indians played by Tom Hardy. However, the director's ambiguous performance of the Indians seems to be telling a statement of inhuman power that transcends civilization and is confirmed in the dark, which brings the film closer to the fields of theology and mystical religion.
In short, this is an in-depth movie that is worth going to the cinema to watch. Although the two hours of watching the movie may be caused by the horror and discomfort brought about by the scenes about the violence and cruel world, I believe that most people can still feel the resonance of the human soul and nature at the same time or at the same time. The profound experience of the tiny existence in front of the great nature.
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