What lies beneath The Revenant | Ato Quayson

The Oscar nominated film’s success owes as much to America’s troubled mindset as to the movie itselfAlejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, nominated in 12 categories at the Oscars, which take place this weekend, is based in part on the novel of the same title by Michael Punke. And yet all the force of the film turns on that “in part”. By transforming the novel’s largely functional descriptions of the natural environment to the fierce