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About Movie
Director : Jane Campion
Featuring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons
Kind: Drama, Romance, Western
Delivered on: 01 Dec 2021
Adapted from: The power of the dousic by: Jonny Greenwood
Author: Jane Campion, Thomas Savage
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
Span: 126 min
Movie Review
Benedict Cumberbatch would not be the first actor that comes to mind when thinking of going to cast a Western, but in Jane Campion's stellar drama "The Power of the Dog," he's exactly what the film involves. He embodies a character in a masculine crisis, covered in dirt from head to toe for the majority of the film also in The Power of the Dog.
It's 1925, in Montana.
The Burbank brothers have been managing livestock runs for over 25 years. These two men are only brothers in name: Phil (Cumberbatch) works the meadows with the men in their employ, wearing chaps and spurs. He'll take a knife to a bull and disembowel it without gloves. He enjoys getting dirty and staying dirty. He's brassy, loud, and crude, and he stinks like a garage mat.
He plays a banjo while talking to George (Plemons) in the bathtub through the door. Phil calls him "fatso" affectionately but not so affectionately. George is reserved, thoughtful, tidy, prefers a bow tie and a comb through his hair.
Family Farm
They now own family farm, as well as all of the cattle and the large house on the property — a house that is plenty big enough for the two of them, given the Burbanks' wealth. They do, however, share a room, with their skinny twin beds separated by a nightstand.
Phil and George take their family farm hands to the nearest small town for a food, a night at the inn, and the company of women. They chow down at the Red Mill. Where Rose (Dunst) prepares a chicken dinner for them and her son Peter serves them.
Character of Peter
Peter is a bit of a kooky character. He's svelte, carefully crafts paper flowers, and speaks with a lisp. Phil continues to bully him and lights his cigarette with one of the paper flowers. Peter hurries out the back door and hula hoops violently. As the other men file out, George sits quietly, hears Rose crying in the kitchen, and comforts her.
He assists her in having breakfast the next day. They marry soon after, and she moves into the brothers' chilly Moosehead Manor, while Peter attends medical career.
Phil takes up pen and paper to tattle to their parents, telling them that George has taken up with "the suicidal behavior widow," while Rose gives George a dancing lesson in front of a rocky mountains postage stamp scene. Phil will have to sleep in that room by himself now. He goes out to the barn and thrashes his horse unnecessarily.
Phil isn't fond of — well, he isn't big a fan of anything. That is, anything other than riding horses and pulling cattle with the men.
He goes into the nearby forest and crawls to his temple, a lakeside location where he can undress, smear himself with sludge, swim, and bathe. Even though she claims she only knows "tunes" she learned while playing in the "cinema pit". George buys Rose a baby grand piano and pressures her to play for him; his pressure is gentle, but it is still pressure.
Phil lurks over the scene, banjo in hand, as she struggles to finish a tune. Distracting her and belittling her without saying anything. George is kind but chilly and distant, and she drinks until she is sick.
We wonder if Campion is arranging the chess pieces so the game can be played out, or if the board can be smashed, as Peter will soon finish school for the summer and move into a place where he is unlikely to be welcomed or accepted.
Best Dialogue
Phil employs projection with no shame whatsoever in his pithy analysis of Peter: “Her boy needs to snap out of it and get human.”
