toke thomassen

It's a great movie. A masterclass in acting from Gyllenhaal and Salim. Jake is getting better, when noone thought it was even possible. Dar Salim is brightly shining star. It's beautifully shot with a clear love for its location and a love of people one of its main themes. It's also an historically important movie, because it IS a very real mark of shame on all the countries once present there, for not protecting the interpreters and honoring agreements. It serves as a superreligious allegory, since its moral is (supposed to be) a culturally shared one, without sugarcoating the very real cultural clashes present. I can't help but view it as sort of an answer or addition to the narrative outplayed in of one of my favorite movies of all time The revenant. As for exciting- It kept me on the edge of my seat. As for my taste, it's less optimal for rewatching than the revenants more poetic feel and focus on survival, injured and in solitude, just for revenge, eventhough he could easily give up and the pain would go away. So I'm going to still give it 5 stars, because of my sympathy for the whole narrative and the story behind it. This is an opposing narrative to the main narrative of the revenant. He doesnt fight to keep his life- he fights to get back and risk it- and not to enact revenge- but to honor the very least, the agreement made.