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The Secret That Makes the Revenant's Cinematography Feel Real In most movies, light is a tool used to tell the story. But in The Revenant , the light is the story. The sun, the sky, the shadows… they aren't just pretty backdrops for the action. They're living, breathing characters in Hugh Glass’s brutal journey from the edge of death back toward a flicker of life. The real secret to why The Revenant’s cinematography feels so raw and real is that the filmmakers decided to