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It took me a bit to figure out what I was watching. It's a comparison between scenes from "The Revenant" and scenes from various films directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

For me there are six genius level directors: Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Fellini, Chaplin and Kurosawa.

Amongst them, at least for me, Tarvosky's movies stays with you longer, and take a little time to digest. Movies are a language that can go straight to your subconscious and great cinematographers knew this.

Edit: Bergman might belong to that list too.

They look nothing alike, it's a distant reach. It's sad that someone even attempted that comparison given how weak the link is. There's a reason that shot by shot only has about 30 seconds of remotely similar footage.

Do you show an object under water or a person traipsing through a field? Now you're just ripping off Tarkovsky. Do you show a person with a sign on them (old westerns anyone?), or a family in a bed, now you're just ripping off Tarkovsky.