(02-09-2016, 07:18 PM)The One Wrote: Agree, the realism part is there, and the movie is quite a spectacle to watch on the big screen. Its not like disliked the movie, I just thought they could do something more with it. I mean one thing you always feel about these kind of movie is emotion, but this was lacking that. I dont think it has anything to do with rough times, in fact its the perfect recipe for it; you really felt for the slaves in 12 Years a Slave, but not here, not for the natives, not Leo or his kid.
But agian, it was a good movie to watch on big screen and Leos performance added to it.
I don't think 12YAS is a very good comparison at all. We are comparing trappers/frontier men to Slaves. Obviously anyone in modern society know the grave injustice done to the African Americans in the slave era. And clearly that movie captures the story from the hardship they had to face told from their point of view.
Here there is no such emotional battle between human beings. This is primarily a man vs wild situation. Hence all the shots of the wilderness and the brutality that is shown.
With the sub text of the decimation done to the Indians by the Americans and the French as they encroached on their land, Sort of in the last stages of that.
But I get what you are saying but I don't think making us feel an overwhelming connection to these people is what the movie is trying to do. Of course you do care a little for Leo to see how he will get out of it and what he going to do next. Maybe that's me. I do agree the father - son dynamic wasn't sold that well.