Although the movie is called “The Revenant”, which means “The one who returned from the dead”, this movie does not show someone returning from the dead.
When people say that someone has returned from the dead they’re only speaking metaphorically. Anybody who really believes that a person can actually return from the dead is foolish.
But when we meet a living person who has endured suffering which is so terrible that we are sure it has killed him, we tend to say “he has returned from the dead”.
This movie, by vividly and realistically showing a man enduring terrible suffering, helps us to understand how the saying “he has returned from the dead” develops and is repeated so often that some people begin to believe that the person really returned from the dead.
This saying is therefore a myth and no matter how realistic the death appears to be we should understand that it’s a myth to say the man returned from the dead.
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