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The Revenant (2015)

★ 7.5 · 19,241 ratings on TMDB

Blood lost. Life found.

The Revenant poster★ 7.5

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

DirectorAlejandro G. Iñárritu
CastArthur Redcloud, Domhnall Gleeson, Duane Howard, Forrest Goodluck, Grace Dove, Leonardo DiCaprio
GenresAdventure, Drama, Western
The emergence reading

The Revenant keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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