The Revenant technical review DOCX

Title	The Revenant technical review
Author	Petr Shchepilov
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The Revenant “One of the most important limitations of cinema, if you like, is the fact that the image can only be realized in factual, natural forms of visible and audible life. A picture has to be naturalistic.” (Tarkovsky’s “Sculpting of Time”) This requirement of legitimacy and specificity of li...

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The Revenant "One of the most important limitations of cinema, if you like, is the fact that the image can only be realized in factual, natural forms of visible and audible life. A picture has to be naturalistic." (Tarkovsky's "Sculpting of Time") This requirement of legitimacy and specificity of life of everything shown on the screen is present not only in the "Sculpting of Time", but also in the other works of Tarkovsky, such as his diaries and lectures in "Time within time". It becomes the main thesis throughout these works. Apparently, this is the requirement of maximum lifelikeness that is responsible for the hypothesis of the divergence of the theoretical assumptions and practices of Tarkovsky, who avoided all his life the most 'objective' modality of 'here and now " in his pictures. Some film purists might not ever want to agree to compare anyone with Andrey Tarkovsky (unless maybe there are white horses involved in the case of Zvyagintsev), much like when people completely reject an idea of agreeing with Hitler even in the most trivial cases, such as objection to smoking, simply because...well… Hitler. However I doubt neither director Alejandro Inarritu, nor cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki have not at least seen Ivan's Childhood. The all too iconicly Russian birch trees, the decimated Christian church with the vision of the young boy amidst a war-like situation, the text against the water, the...