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The Power of Dogs 2021
Director: Jane Campion
Writers: Jane Campion / Thomas Savage
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch / Kerstin Dunst
Douban 7.4 IMDb 6.6
Last year's Venice Film Festival opened, the world's latest wonderful movies were concentrated, and a movie exploded against the sky and premiered at the film festival! At the end of the first batch of viewers to watch the film, the audience stood up and applauded for 4 minutes, and the premiere received rave reviews, which has become the first major hit of the 2021 Venice Film Festival, which is Jane Campion's new work "The Power of Dogs"!
On the Rotten Tomatoes platform, after the word-of-mouth of "Canine Power" was lifted, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes actually got 100%, and the real zero bad reviews of movies were so good that the word of mouth was so good.
And on the most demanding platform: MTC, it also scored 90 points, so excellent word of mouth, simply against the sky.
Film director Jane Campion is a talented female director who became the first female director in the history of the Cannes Film Festival to win the Palme d'Or with the film Piano Lessons. In addition, she has also directed excellent film and television works such as "Bright Star", "Lady's Nature" and "Angels at the Same Table with Me", and the reputation is good. It can be said that Jane Campion's work has always had quality assurance, and this time she once again presented a film masterpiece.
The cast is also very strong, starring Benedict Cumberbatch of "Sherlock", "Doctor Strange", Jesse Premont in "Breaking Bad" and "Bridge of Spies", Tomasin McKenzie in "Jojo's Whimsical World", Cotie Smit-McPhee in the X-Men series, Frances Conroy and Kertin Dunst in "American Horror Story".
This film is also considered to be the best performance of Roll Fu's acting career, especially the emotional scene, the protagonist's delicate emotions are vividly interpreted by him, and it also plays a complex side of human nature, which is described as an extremely shocking performance. It is entirely possible that Huan Fu will sweep the major film festivals with this new film and reap the grand prizes of the film emperor.
Adapted from Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of the American West in the 1930s. As a Western film, the shots are beautiful, and every frame is beautiful, like wallpaper. Some of the shots are so beautiful that they look very comfortable, even like oil paintings.
Phil, played by Curly Fu in the film, and George, played by Jesse Plemont, are brothers who run a vast farm inherited from their parents. The brothers have very different personalities, with Phil arrogant, arrogant and rude, mingling with farm cowboys, often showing excessively aggressive masculinity.
George, as a Yale graduate, although he was a loser in the mouth of his brother Phil, showed a certain temperament of a town intellectual in his dress and manners, and he did not personally work on the farm, mainly responsible for completing various business negotiations.
On a trip to transport their cattle, the brothers meet Rose, the proprietor of a small inn, and her sensitive, delicate and delicate son, Pete. Phil notices that Pete has made elaborate paper flowers to decorate the table, but instead of recognizing his cleverness, he begins to loudly mock Pete and Rose.
Under the blatant bullying of his brother Phil, his younger brother George has pity for the orphans and widows. After the large army left, he returned to the inn and expressed his tenderness to Rose, and the two soon decided to marry.
Faced with the new members of the family, Phil feels an unprecedented crisis: although he has tried his best to cover up with cynicism, he actually has a desire for care and love beyond the daily life of his brother George; and the arrival of Rose and Pitt has separated George's attention and feelings.
In order to balance this uneasiness and declare his absolute dominance in the family, he began to bully the Mother and Son of Rose in various ways. But when Pete inadvertently breaks into Phil's secret stronghold of relaxing, a cabin in the woods by the river, Phil begins to notice Pete, a clever teenager.
Although Pete was bent on going to town to attend the doctor, Phil put in a lot of effort to train Pitt to be a qualified cowboy like the old cowboy Henry had trained himself. He taught Pete how to ride a horse, how to weave a horse whip... In the process of getting along between the two people, their feelings for each other slowly changed, and Phil developed more and more attachment to Pete. At this moment, something happened that I don't know if it was an accident...
The film is like a real "peep", intercepting various fragments from each person's life and presenting them to the audience, and these fragments are their restrained lives. They are in the midst of vast mountains and wilderness, in the face of the wandering of desire and civilization, trapped in twisted love in crowded families, suffocated and struggling in barbaric humiliation, longing for a glimmer of comfort in the muddy everyday life. Life is intertwined like the wind blowing through a valley.
Like Piano Lessons, Campion excels at examining the past of the wild land from a very modern perspective. She once gave the distant wife played by Holly Hunter a very feminist free soul to challenge the violent coarseness of patriarchal society and the strength and weakness of the barbaric jungle.
In "The Power of dogs", she also gave a rough and bad, macho cowboy obsessed with the same sex but ashamed to talk about the contradictory core, from the epistemology of "toxic masculinity" to reflect on the emotional appeal and social situation of human essence. Campion, who has been silent for 12 years, has indeed found a long-lost desire to express himself in this cowboy Phil, who is deeply in the loveless panic.
The whole film has almost no waves of emotion, but it provokes the viewer's nerves several times in a tentative way. The obscure perception, with the various repressed emotions in the movie, allows the viewer to follow everyone in the movie on the edge of the emotion, eager to try and stop talking. Each set of shots has its own unique intent.
The story of "Dog Power" is not fast-paced, the plot is slowly unfolding, but it is full of momentum, the delicate preparation of the first half lays the foundation for the outbreak of the second half, and near the end, you can truly feel the deep theme and charm of this movie.
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