![]() ![]() For Peter, it presents a hardened masculinity he must learn to overcome. Using New Zealand for 1920s Montana, writer/director Campion sets this quiet-yet-angry Western against a harsh background that’s both beautiful and imposing. The unlikely camaraderie unlocks a number of secrets and hidden intentions, changing everyone’s relationship to each other. ![]() That is, until Peter tries to spend more time with Phil. He steps up his intimidation of Rose and Peter, like intensifying heat with a magnifying glass. This enrages Phil, who takes the loss of his brother to a woman quite badly. George reaches out to comfort her, and ends up falling for her. At a stop at a restaurant, Phil harshly taunts Rose ( Kirsten Dunst), a widow running the joint, and her son Peter ( Kodi Smit-McPhee), who Phil bullies until Peter walks off the job and leaves his mother in tears. Where Phil is calloused and mean, George is gentler and more soft-spoken, often at the mercy of his brother’s teasing. Cumberbatch’s Phil is the rough and tumble Remus to the movie’s kinder Romulus, his brother George ( Jesse Plemons). ![]()
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