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live with fruit posted:I wasn't really clear on what we were supposed to take away from Power of the Dog. Cumberbatch was a complete rear end in a top hat to everyone he met except his brother, who hated him, but then we find out that he has a vaguely sad backstory. And then he's murdered by someone who comes off as a psycho. That's sad? Good? I think Campion would say that it just sort of is. Phil cultivates a toxic veneer to repress his homosexuality. Peter is less of a character, which I guess could be seen as one of the bigger criticisms of the movie, and more the manifestation of something more true and primal than Phil can manage with all of his artifice and bluster. Phil is afraid that if he lets down his masculine façade he will be punished, an idea which the movie seems to agree with because he immediately is. Peter cares deeply about his mother he just doesn't really seem to care about anything else. He is in a way reminiscent to me of David in A.I. But this view comes from my inability to read Peter as a traditional character in a film. He makes much more sense to me as a metaphorical force that seeks to correct the imbalance in his household and disabuse Phil of his understanding of masculinity's virtues for self protection.
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