So I watched this yesterday and must say I'm dissapointed.
The acting and story was fine enough I guess but there was a dumb #%&*$# thing about it that only a Californiann script writer would put in there.
I can take many things like that he'd most likely die from massive infections in his wounds ( but they were hardy men after all, so it's possible to survive I guess).
And I might have missed other things due to being tired when I watched it, like where Tom Hardy found two horses so they could get to the fort.
But there is this one thing I can't overlook cause it's so glaringly stupid considering the setting and people involved.
This is all about trappers, scouts and indians who by all account lives for weeks and months far away from civilization, which at the time wasn't that civilized anyway..
So one would assume they all should be well versed in how to survive in the wildernesse.
This means that they must know rule number one in surviving in a sub-arctic climate during winter.
(I'm not much of an outdoors man myself, but when you live up here you know this.)
DON'T GET WET!!!
But there's no puddle, creek, brook, lake or river small enough for them to not seek it out and splash around in it.
If the infection didn't kill him, hypothermia certainly would ( along with most of the others too).
By the way. If you want to know how cold water affects you, put a bucket of water in the fridge over night and then fill it up with ice cubes and dunk you hands in it for a few minutes.
Tough it out as long as you can, until the pain starts going away and your hands go numb.
Now pull them up and try to start a fire with flint and steel.
Imagine that feeling over your whole body, and be grateful you didn't just spend 10-15 minutes grabbing on to a log in a freezing cold river.
Cause you'd be dead.
