<P> In the documentary of the film titled A World Unseen, Iñárritu has stated that for the main themes of the film he revisits the issues and concerns of intense parental and filial relations, which audiences of his previous films readily recognize as a recurrent theme in his previous work . Regarding the theme of revenge seen throughout The Revenant, Iñárritu has stated that the approach of vengeance seen in the film needs to be significantly tempered by anyone who would want to see vengeance as either an effective or useful moral to be applied in life . In the end, Iñárritu states, there can only be disappointment and lack of fulfillment for anyone who looks to revenge as providing a higher purpose for living or a life defining purpose . </P> <P> The Guardian reported, "The backstory about Glass's love for a Pawnee woman is fiction . It has been suggested the real Glass had such a relationship, but there's no firm evidence--and no evidence that he had any children...As for the ending, it has been changed in one significant way: in real life, nobody got killed ." </P> <P> American Rifleman reported, "There was no Pawnee wife or children to motivate him, no real cause for revenge, either, as he understood that Jim Bridger and John Fitzgerald honestly thought he was as good as dead . He might have done the same thing if their roles were reversed . The one constant in every telling of the tale until "The Revenant" opened was Hugh Glass wanted his gun back ." The reporting about this story indicates that Glass did track down Fitzgerald and demand the rifle's return, which Fitzgerald sullenly complied with . </P> <P> Canadian actor Roy Dupuis was strongly critical of the movie for portraying French - Canadian voyageurs as murderous rapists . Dupuis was originally offered a role as a voyageur, but he rejected it due to perceptions of anti-French bias and historical inaccuracies . According to Allan Greer, the Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America, "generally the American traders had a worse reputation than the Canadians ." </P>

Where was the revenant meant to be set