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Whether you favor it or oppose it today, there was a time when opposing the killing of animals or opposition to wearing animal skins of any sort would be unthinkable. In some cities, you wear fur only at the risk of being shouted down or having fake blood splashed on you. You first think of the animal rights movement and, in particular, the anti-fur movement. Plus, I like movies that give rise to big thoughts about survival, morality, economics and politics. There's something about stories of frontier deprivation and the confrontation with raw nature that intrigues us in times of plenty. In the course of his struggle, he has to live off the land, eating raw buffalo, catching fish with his hands, sealing his own wounds with gunpowder and so on. Incredibly, he survives and comes back to exact revenge. In fact, the main plot device-not a spoiler it's all in the trailer-involves a wounded man left for dead because it became too much of a bother to drag him around on a stretcher. Their main concern is to grab the pelts, carry them away and get as far from danger as possible. The trappers themselves lose more than half the men in their expedition, and there is a spooky absence of feeling.

The natives who are killing the fur trappers have no regard for the lives of the invading poachers. Death is greeted with alarming indifference. In the course of the film, many people die. The economic history of the fur trade in these years seems to confirm the authenticity of the claim. At one point, one of the trappers mentions that they are carrying a fortune in pelts. The whole purpose of the dangerous expedition was to gather as much as possible and to haul it back to the base to be transported and sold. (One reason we don't care much about hats anymore: We are indoors most of the time, with central heating.)

It is universally used for clothing, and, as time went on, to satisfy the rising demand for fashionable hats in the cities and large population centers. In fact, fur (and the leather to which it is attached) is more valuable than human life. In the times pictured, furs are not luxury goods but rather a necessity-at least for the hunters and traders in this dangerous land. The detail is captivating, such as watching the bear's breath freeze in the air as it leaves its snout. They used high-tech methods to make it as real as possible. How did they know what a bear attack is like? They came across footage of a real bear attack at a zoo in Germany and examined its movements and rhythms. They just wanted it to behave the way a bear behaves when protecting cubs, a device that turns out to intensify the drama. The filmmakers report that they didn't want the bear to seem angry or vicious. The most memorable scene involves a close-up account of a bear attack. On the verge of dying from the cold, he cuts open his dead horse, empties the insides and sleeps in it for the night.

When the protagonist, who is freezing to death, manages to put on a gigantic bear pelt and wear it by creating a hole for his head, the viewer feels his relief.

Movies can't yet impart the feeling of what it is like to freeze-thankfully, I watched this in a warm theater, sitting in a leather recliner while drinking wine and eating a Caesar salad-but the cinematography alone somehow brings you close.

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The physical conditions featured in the movie are beyond belief. The year is 1823, and the setting is Wyoming and South Dakota-unsettled, freezing and insanely dangerous from both man and nature. It's not from Saks or Bloomingdale's, but pelts gathered from the Wild West. Throughout the film, most of the men wear it. If The Revenant gets the Oscar (it's up for best picture), we might anticipate a serious return of fur as an item of fashion-and controversy. This article first appeared on the Anything Peaceful site.

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