Yesterday (Afternoon of January 9, Los Angeles local time)
The 79th Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television
Although the scene was exceptionally deserted, there were no reporters and nominees, no Walk of Fame, and no live or webcast.
But the biggest winner in the Golden Globe Awards film category is still very worth saying - Netflix's "Power of Dogs"
At the same time, it won three awards: "Best Picture in the Drama Category", "Best Director" and "Best Supporting Actor"
After watching the cast, it was a must-see movie: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kerstin Dunst, Jesse Plemont.
Needless to say, Kerstin Dunst is Toby's screaming girlfriend Mary Jane in Spider-Man's version.
But my familiarity with her comes from an earlier classic film, Night Interview with the Vampire.
In 1994, at the age of 12, Dunster, together with Brother Tang and Pete, who were at the peak of their appearance and were not as beautiful as humans, performed a vampire family adventure that lasted for hundreds of years.
In this "Power of Dogs", she and her real-life husband Jesse Plemont play a couple who reorganize their families.
Jesse Premon had starred in the fifth season of Breaking Bad, and many angles were very similar to Matt Damon' What's going on?
The first hour of this movie is easy to dissuade, but it is important to remind everyone that the story begins to be exciting from an hour later.
You will find that there is a lot of paving in front,
It's even worth going back and watching it again!
If you haven't seen it yet, don't mind watching spoilers first, as this will help you pay more attention to the details of the previous hour.
Spoiler Alert !!!
01
Set in 1925, Benny plays a character named Phil, a tough western guy.
After playing Turing in "Imitation Game", he once again played an old gay.
Moreover, he also fell in love with his nephew (extremely informative)
We look at the show by role, starting with Phil's perspective.
Phil's full name is Phil Bobant, and from 1900 he ran the farm left behind by his parents with his younger brother George (Jesse Plemont).
They knew nothing about the farm at the time, and an old cowboy named Bronke Henry helped the brothers make ends meet.
Phil compares the brothers to Romulus and Remus, and Henry to wolf fathers.
By the way, Romulus and Remus were two brothers in Roman mythology. Romulus later killed Remus and became the first king of the Roman Empire.
Unlike Phil's western flamboyant, his younger brother George likes to wear suits and top hats and is not very concerned about the farm's business.
Recently, a sick cow appeared on the farm and died of anthrax.
But George was absent-minded, and his mind was not on cows, but on women.
In addition, the farm has always been run by Phil, who is not only arrogant but also looks down on his brother.
On this day, the 12 cowboys herding cattle together went to eat at the Moulin Rouge restaurant in town.
The lady of the restaurant is the woman George has in mind, Rose.
The hostess has a son Peter who is out of place with the wild west and looks white and pure.
Peter studied medicine in the city, lived with his mother, and enjoyed reading, origami, wearing neat T-shirts and snow-white canvas shoes.
During the process of eating and drinking, Phil not only repeatedly humiliated him in public, calling him "Miss Nancy", but also used the paper flowers he made to light cigarettes.
Phil was not only a man with a bad attitude towards the little boy and his brother, he was cruel and violent to anyone, shouting at every turn.
But the more exaggerated and trying to show his masculinity, the more strange it is.
In other words, irritability is a question of one's own masculinity and an impotent roar triggered by some inferiority complex.
Peter, who was bullied to the point of crying his nose, could only go downstairs to hula hoops.
The young actor is so skinny, I looked it up, he's 26 years old.
Played the classic supporting role Nightcrawler (as a young man) in Dark Phoenix and Deadpool 2.
In this movie, Peter is a college student, and it can be seen that he is really young when he loses weight.
In the evening, George carefully complains that Phil has provoked Peter to cry, but also peter's mother (his beloved woman)
Phil's explanation was that her son couldn't never be like a grandfather, and I was teaching him how to be a man.
In other words, frustration education, for his own good.
The latter part begins to gradually explain Phil's difference. Phil's life is full of loneliness.
First of all, he can see the dog in the middle of the mountain in the town, except for Henry, the "wolf father" who guided him to grow up, there is no second person who can see it now.
You can find out ⬇️ later in me
Second, Phil doesn't bathe with the other cowboys and often runs to the secret base alone.
He also doesn't like socializing, he doesn't trim the edges, he hates businessmen,
Animal skins would rather be burned than sold to anyone,
He is even more afraid and resistant to the process of modernization.
In fact, the "cattle herding kingdom" in the American West lived in its heyday, from 1865 to 1890, but only existed for a short period of 25 years.
There are three main reasons for the decline:
First, the profits of sheep husbandry exceed those of cattle herding;
The second is the rapid rise of the planting industry, especially the farm industry;
The third is the rise of railways and the emergence of train transportation,
Completely replaced the long-distance drive of the cowboys.
By 1925, the people of the cities had largely abandoned the Western way of life.
Phil and George's parents also took a train to the big city, abandoning their farm life.
Only Phil was stubborn, although he was an honors honors student in classical literature at Yale University,
But he has different feelings for the farm, one is because the farm is his hard work, and making cowboys is the embodiment of his man's charm.
The second reason is because there is someone he once loved, Bronke Henry.
Finally, the younger brother married rose, the lady of the restaurant,
They became a happy family.
This is all too normal, but Phil believes that Rose is trying to make George the wronged head and bear the tuition of his stupid son.
But the discerning person can see that George and Rose are not only in love but also very happy.
Ross was afraid of Phil and hid the time bomb everywhere.
Phil did target his sister-in-law everywhere, bullying her all the time.
Living under such bullying, Rose gradually became suspicious, delirious, drunk, and often vomited and had migraines.
All this, the seemingly weak and feminine son Peter, was all in sight.
02
From another perspective, let's take a look at the girly little Peter.
Peter was a medical student, and his biological father was a doctor, but his father was an alcoholic and died by suicide.
For Peter's sexual orientation, mother Rose has also been very worried.
So later when he got close to Phil, his mother was in a state of near collapse.
Peter is clever, maybe this is not a mother,
It's just a common feature of the care of surgical students.
In addition to liking origami, illustration, planting flowers, newspaper clippings...
Peter also longed for the big villa in the city,
I hope to one day take my mother to a better life.
After his mother remarried, Peter would come to Phil's farm every summer vacation to live with him.
On the farm, although the cowboys liked to make fun of him, Peter didn't care much.
First, he had new friends in college.
With the future goal of life struggle.
Second, he loves to learn and research,
These things are enough to fill the backward life on the farm.
He would even catch a hare and dissect it by hand.
There are many hints in the play that Peter is not as weak as he seems.
On this day, Phil, who was scratching his head at the secret base in the forest, fiddling with Bronk Henry's silk scarf, and doing indescribable things, happened to be bumped by Peter.
Peter discovered not only Phil's "secret garden", but also his big secret -
Phil hid poster albums of various muscular macho men, and Phil liked men.
Since then, Phil's attitude has changed subtly, and Peter's plans have begun.
Phil stopped bullying Peter and began to teach him to ride horses, braid horses, and teach him to adapt to the environment and integrate into it.
And Peter quietly changed his title from Mr. Bobank to Phil.
What really moved Phil was that he felt that he was no longer alone, and peter could see the dogs on the mountain.
In fact I can see... ⬇️
As her relationship with Phil progressed, her mother Rose's state deteriorated.
Sometimes he was crazy and even talked nonsense, but Peter didn't think so.
He swapped his white canvas shoes for Martin boots and learned to ride horses and herd cattle.
Just as everything was about to shift toward some delicate emotional relationship, Peter's behavior began to become strange.
He began to learn about anthrax and rode to the wilderness to collect the cowhide of some sick and dead cattle.
And the purpose of doing this is only one... To save their own mother.
Peter was well aware of Phil's frequent injuries and that he never wore gloves at work.
So, after cutting his right hand at Phil's job, Peter asked Phil, with a slight ambiguity, to make a rope for himself to set the horse.
And this piece of cowhide made of rope was cut by him on the dead cattle of anthrax disease.
Before the end of the summer vacation, Phil's gift for Peter was finally ready, and the anthrax on his body was terminally ill.
For the first time, he changed into a suit, picked up the gift, and prepared to give it to Peter with his own hands in a ceremonial manner.
But Peter did not see him, and Phil died in the town hospital.
After Phil's death, his mother and George lived happily together.
From then on, the mother did not have to drink heavily, the stepfather did not have to be afraid, and no one bullied them again.
Peter changed back into his white shoes and hid the rope.
Looking at his mother, a meaningful smile appeared on his face...
03
The film has an original novel of the same name, in which there is a passage about the past of Peter Jr.'s father, which is not shown in the film.
In fact, Peter's father was a very skilled doctor, but depressed in this desolate place.
He used to chat with Phil at a restaurant and show off his knowledge, and proudly spoke a few words of ancient Greek.
Unexpectedly, Phil, who looked barbaric and ignorant, mocked him in a more powerful Greek.
From then on, Peter's father became more depressed and hanged himself a year later.
As we said earlier, Phil is a laude student in the Department of Classical Literature at Yale University.
He gave up his academic achievements to return to the farm, first, because his younger brother George did not enter the university, and he wanted to help his brother to support himself.
Second, because of his relationship with Bronk Henry, he loved the matter of being a full-time cowboy.
That's why when Henry dies and his brother George has to abandon himself for women, Phil will be so angry that he excludes his sister-in-law.
Even when you are vulnerable and lonely, secretly hide and wipe your tears.
Canine Force director and screenwriter Jane Campion has a familiar feminist author's brushstrokes.
Compared with the original book, the role of Mother Rose is more and fuller. The whole film is very slow and beautiful, but it tells a story of "killing people without blood".
Knowing the ending and watching it again, you will feel that Phil is paranoid but also a little pitiful.
Peter, on the other hand, looks weak but reveals fortitude and viciousness at every turn.
In fact, for Peter's character, the film has long been paved.
As soon as the movie opens, it's a monologue by Peter —
"After my father died, I only wanted my mother to live happily. If I don't help her through it, if I don't save her, then what kind of man am I? ”
Peter is not a, he is even full of the protection of a big man, he wants to protect his mother in his own way.
His personality is displayed everywhere in the details: he loves the rabbit, caresses it gently one second, and then breaks its neck without blinking the next.
The cowboys, who looked like male hormones bursting, mocked and discriminated against Peter all the time.
But the gentle one is not necessarily the mother's cannon, and the savage one is not necessarily the grandfather, these are all inherent prejudices.
Peter's inner strength was not only strong but also very reclusive, he didn't care at all, he knew that he was stronger than those who laughed at him.
His inner world is not as thin as his appearance.
Even in the end, he used his gentle advantage skillfully.
His seemingly soft eyes turned into murderous weapons, dominating his relationship with Phil.
But Phil, on the other hand, is much more vulnerable, he looks like a rough guy, but he is actually vulnerable.
The most ironic thing is that after Phil's death, his body was replaced by a gentlemanly suit.
He was shaved off his beard and was neatly dressed and laid in a coffin.
All of this was the most rejected by Phil in his lifetime.
Civilization will eventually replace the wilderness, and the world of western cowboys will also be gone.