Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Left behind like history

Man In The Wilderness (1971)

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian this film based on real events stars Richard Harris, John Huston, Prunella Ransome and Percy Herbert. In 1820 a fur trapper in Missouri is mauled by a bear and left to die by his colleagues.

While this film may claim to be a true story I think it is one of the many films that more likely is a fictional tale vaguely inspires by real history. The story is a basic survival story but never really goes anywhere and the ideas of spiritual rebirth are not fully fleshed out either. Annoyingly the colour in the print of this film seems to be fairly desaturated so it does not look the best either.


2/5

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