What director Jane Campion achieved in the film “The Power of the Dog” will captivate you from start to finish. Not surprisingly, the best Netflix production won 12 nominations for the 2022 Oscars. This film is based on the novel of the same name by author Thomas Savage.
The great stars of Hollywood embodied their characters masterfully. The protagonists Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst were accompanied by Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee, to form a cast that had the task of turning the western genre into a thriller with an enigmatic ending.
After passing through movie theaters, it reached Netflix screens and fans of the streaming company made it their favorite.
The “Power of the Dog” Plot: Who Killed Phil?
The “Power of the Dog” tells the story of two brothers Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Burbank (Jesse Plemons) as owners of a ranch in the city of Montana. Set in the year 1925, the men meet innkeeper Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst) and her son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and that moment will change their lives.
George and Rose fall in love and marry, changing their routine to a ranch setting. It will be Phil, the cruel brother-in-law who leads the good-mannered widow to sink into drink and become addicted to alcohol.
Vogue magazine speaks to perfection of the plot of this film, defining the masterful turn that its director gives it, to touch on the subject of the profuse masculinity of the man from the west to the fragility hidden under the attire of a cowboy.
The New Zealand director describes the planes of repression, power and suffering in the relationship between Phil and young Peter, trying to get the son to do what he has to do to free his mother from his brother-in-law’s cruelty , planning in detail how to get rid of the presence of his “uncle”.
Benedict Cumberbatch is an evil and traumatized cowboy in ‘The power of the dog’
To understand the end of “El Poder del Perro”, the viewer will have to give special meaning to each detail and to a beginning marked by a voiceover that makes a reflection: ‘what kind of man would I be if not?’…” en the beginning of Peter’s sentence that refers to the need to take care of his mother in the face of any danger.
It will be Peter who will give life to the enigmatic symbology of what the name of the film translates and the character on whom the fate of the mean Phil falls.
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