It's easy to die, it's hard to live

Marianna 2022-04-22 07:01:03

In the middle of the night, I regurgitated the pictures of the movies I watched during the day, and I gradually felt a poetic feeling. Looking back at the character of Glass slowly, you can't feel his multi-facetedness, how complicated his heart is, but surprisingly simple, alive, alive, revenge, after revenge? As if taking time out of everything, everything lost its meaning and stopped abruptly. We live in a human environment and have never been able to enter this wilderness. Maybe in the wilderness, human life is like this. No one can die, but some people have to survive. Dying is easy, surviving is hard, finding meaning in life is even harder, so hard that as long as a little phantom has a reason to live. Life has never been so pure and difficult, and it has never been so empty like this wasteland. The history of the fur trade in the film reminds me of the historical anthropology book I read as an undergraduate, "Europe and People Without History". There are guns, horses, furs, snow and ice. This book is still on my bookshelf. The movie shows us the blood and pain that can't be written in the book. It suddenly occurred to me that the Chinese translation of Revenant Hunter does not mean "there is a hunter in the wilderness", but "hunting enemies in the wilderness". revenant.

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The Revenant quotes

  • Placard (in french): WE ARE ALL SAVAGES

  • John Fitzgerald: You all right there kid? Your head in the right place?

    Bridger: I guess... I can't help thinking about whether we did the right...

    John Fitzgerald: No! Ain't our place to wonder. The good Lord got us on a road whether we choose it or not.

    John Fitzgerald: My pop, he weren't a religious man, you know? If you couldn't grow it, kill it, or eat it, he just plain old didn't believe in it, that was it. And this one time he head on up the old Saba hills... San Saba hills? He joined a couple Texas Ranger buddies of his to hunt you know? pretty routine, he done it like a hundred times before, should have been a three-day kill but, on the second day, it all went fucked. Somehow that night he lost his buddies, and to top it off, them Comanches went and took the horses so, he was starving and delirious... and he crawls up into this mott, this... this group of trees out in the middle of nowhere just sticking up in this ocean of scrub and he found religion. At that moment he told me... he found God. And it turns out that God... He's a squirrel. Yea. A big, old meaty one. "I found God" he used to say. "And while sitting there and basking in the glory and sublimity of mercy... I shot and ate that son of a bitch".

    John Fitzgerald: Yeah. You might want to close your eyes kid.