The Revenant
On the Oscar nomination 2016, “The Revenant” received 12 nominations and not surprisingly, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar Best Actor prize. However, not until last weekend did I finally got time to watch this movie in theater. I love watching all kinds of movies because great movies have the power to express the unimaginable feelings that words cannot convey. “The Revenant” is one of those. It somehow reminded me of a movie I saw long time ago: “Fight Club”. Actually it just reminded me of one actor’s line in “Fight Club”, and that is “losing all hope is freedom.” In “The Revenant”, we not only watch, but at the same time also go through all those suffering, physically and emotionally together with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this
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These people’s daily life seems not to have many things to do with the overall trend of history, but when it is added up, it is able to twist the path where the world will be going like the butterfly effect. In the early seventeenth century, a group of puritans departed from England sailing all the way to Plymouth on a cargo ship named “May Flower”. Two months of sailing had casted their hometown far away beneath the ocean level. Under their feet, it was the endless ground that had never been stepped on before. These puritans were taken as extreme religious heresy by people in their country. Possessing both devout for God and passion for adventure, they settled down with these two contradictories, which also became their root for centuries. As the wheel of history kept moving forward, an emerging country called the United States settled on the continent’s eastern coast, brought up the wild ambitions of adventurers for the vast land of Continental Midwest. Then it began the Trail of Tears, also known as Westward Movement. Conflicts between white soldiers and aboriginals came up in the form of the battle between revolvers and bows and
These people’s daily life seems not to have many things to do with the overall trend of history, but when it is added up, it is able to twist the path where the world will be going like the butterfly effect. In the early seventeenth century, a group of puritans departed from England sailing all the way to Plymouth on a cargo ship named “May Flower”. Two months of sailing had casted their hometown far away beneath the ocean level. Under their feet, it was the endless ground that had never been stepped on before. These puritans were taken as extreme religious heresy by people in their country. Possessing both devout for God and passion for adventure, they settled down with these two contradictories, which also became their root for centuries. As the wheel of history kept moving forward, an emerging country called the United States settled on the continent’s eastern coast, brought up the wild ambitions of adventurers for the vast land of Continental Midwest. Then it began the Trail of Tears, also known as Westward Movement. Conflicts between white soldiers and aboriginals came up in the form of the battle between revolvers and bows and