The Revenant The Road And Everest

The Revenant, The Road, and Everest, are the three artifacts that will be analyzed in this essay. The filmmakers of these three films all seem to be forcing the audience to walk away at the end with a feeling that nature is a difficult force to overcome. By depicting nature as a proving ground for survival, we see how nature threatens to overcome human life. In attempt to try and survive, humans must adapt to and thoroughly understand their environment. These depictions connect to the tendencies embodied within the Enlightment Movement and its thinkers such as Francis Bacon who believed that humans must work around a closer understanding of nature. While these filmmakers are representing nature as a force to not be reckoned with, they all illustrate, at least at some point, nature as a blissful environment that must be adored and respected. This is much like what was done in the works of Romantic thinkers such as William Wordsworth and other Transcendentalists. The big picture goal coming out of the filmmakers’ representations of nature seems to be a calling for the conservation of the environment. By showing the unpredictability of nature …show more content…
Somehow regaining his strength, Glass is able to get himself back on his feet and then make his way back to the fort using only the tools of nature to help get him there. This film is throwing us into an idea of sheer survival, invoking feelings about the necessity of nature, and in a way showing that nature is the only thing we need for survival. While Iñárritu is telling a story that has to do with American History, his message really resonates from the things that he has been conditioned by in the present and harp on his feeling of environmental conservation and