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The genre I chose to review for the month of October was an American Movie, The Revenant. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu this film is set in 1823 in Montana and South Dakota and the main character is Hugh Glass played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Hugh Glass is a frontiersman who is half Native-American and has a Native American son named Hawk. The movie revolves around his struggles as a father and his comeback after being attacked by a bear and almost dying, losing his son, and being left behind by his own men. In the end a Native American chief kills the man who killed Glass’s son. The last scene show Glass falling to his knees and seeing a vision of his dead wife walking into the light and then Glass’s eyes fill up with tears. I decided to review …show more content…

The movie also has merit because of the emotion that is displayed by the main characters during their long and difficult journey throughout the movie. Overall, The Revenant was an emotional and suspenseful journey through Hugh Glass’s struggles as an American Frontiersman.
The connection to American culture is strong in this movie because of its setting and the characters involved. The setting is in South Dakota and Montana. The time period is the winter of 1823, a popular time for the American Frontier. Many of the scenes in the movie show extreme cold and lots of snow. For example, when Hugh Glass is wounded and running from an Indian Tribe on a horse, he jumps off a cliff with the horse. He then precedes to open the horse and gut it. Then he goes inside of the horse and falls asleep. This horse’s bodies saved him from the hearse cold that ended up freezing the whole outside of the horse. To film this obscene cold, the movie was actually filmed in Calgary and Alberta, Canada because their is more frontier-like land up north in less developed and less traveled land. Watching the movie, there was no distinctive difference between current

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