* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The whole story is flat-out depressing. A young, idealistic missionary goes through hell and high water to reach a remote mission, while several of his guides die in bleak, cold wilderness. The main character always remains a stranger to the people around him. And after all the hardships and apparent success of [=LaForgue=]'s missionary work, the movie ends with a short card that informs the audience how it was all moot, since the Hurons got wiped out just 15 years later. The explicit violence and torture only make things worse. And all of this is ''deliberate'', because the main purpose of the original novel and thus the adaptation was to play the story as realistic as possible, stripping it from all the romanticism and adventuring cliches. This led to a very solid film that is also very hard to stomach, while telling an outright uninviting story.
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