But he reckons without an unlikely protector.From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business.Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance George has a gentle, loving soul. Phil is tall and angular George is stocky and silent. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Last modified on Thu 06.17 EST J ane Campion’s first feature film in more than 10 years is a western gothic psychodrama: mysterious, malicious, with a lethal ending that creeps up behind.
It’s a unique ride of a movie, beautiful and disturbing and haunting in other words, it’s a Jane Campion film. All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. This is a movie as big as the open sky, but one where human emotions are still distinctly visible, as fine and sharp as a blade of grass. First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx.Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling.
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