Can't tell a story without first

Perverting it.

The story of Hugh Glass was incredible in its natural state but this groping hack reaches for the strings to change his audience into what he deems they should be. Otherwise, why would Fitzgerald literally speak the intended moral of the story verbatim to Glass during their fight? Why would he add a half-blooded son to strengthen the character of a man who chose to deny a bear attack as his end?

When someone is as technically magnificent as Innaritu, it is his motivations - not his decisions in particular - that strike us most. But we would find more appreciation in feeling like he sat down while we watched his show, rather than feeling like he stood within view next to the screen throughout the whole ordeal, cuing us during danger when misplaced music wasn't doing the trick.

I had more fun watching a thirty second YouTube segment than I did watching DiCaprio play himself again in The Revenant. Hardy was incredible, his growth as an actor is observable.