How Does John Fitzgerald Use Glass In The Great Gatsby

hen a group of trappers is attacked by Ree Indians, in search of their kidnapped daughter Powaqa (Melaw Nakehk’o), the fleeing frontiersmen rush onto a boat to drift down the river. Losing most of the valuable pelts and nearly all of his men (33 are killed while 10 make it to the raft), Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson) decides to follow the advice of his chief explorer, Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), in abandoning the vessel to find a new trail across the mountains on foot. As the disheveled gang makes their way through the harsh terrain, Glass wanders out to hunt alone in the forest, only to be viciously mauled by a protective mother bear.
“He’ll be dead inside an hour.” Though he sustains severe injuries beyond anything one might assume are survivable, Glass is stitched back together and hoisted along for a period of time – until rebellious soldier John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) determines that looking after the wounded man is detrimental to his own survival. Through deception and murder, Fitzgerald manages to abandon Glass – alone and in a shallow grave – to succumb to his wounds and the bitter cold. But Glass is no stranger to extreme perseverance, using staggering determination and a bit of luck to embark on a daring odyssey of unrelenting revenge.
And then there’s a bit of drama in between. Writer/director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is so exceedingly proud of every individual environmental image that he has painstakingly captured on film, but his efforts are to such a point of artistic distraction that he’s forgotten to tell a story. As an overabundance of running time is spent gorging on the stunning elements of dense forests and icy plains and sparkling rivers all basking in natural light, there’s no room left in the immense 156-minute production for any semblance of