You have to say this for it, Jeffrey, it’s a real ending. “Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog.” And so, you see that he’s in fact, been cooking up this plan all along and that he sees himself as a kind of angel of vengeance, which loops back again to that opening voiceover and him kind of becoming the protector of his mother. Stevens: Yeah, I believe before he spots his mother and her husband outside, he reads himself a Bible verse that is where the title of the movie comes from, right? And then that’s it, baby! You get “power of the dog” and that’s the end of the movie. And it’s quite obvious that he orchestrated the whole thing. And then, with gloves on, he takes the rope and slowly puts it under the bed, because he knows what’s on the rope. It’s a real chilling reveal moment where you realize that the person that you thought had the power and the cards in the movie was someone completely different. And then we see that Pete is watching them, and he turns around and he smiles, the smile that’s giving me goosebumps just to even think about it. They kiss each other in front of the house. We’ll know in a few days, but what I’m thinking is anthrax.” And then George says something like, “Well, that’s weird, because Phil was really good about avoiding sick animals.” And then perhaps you realize what happened.īut then they get back to the house, and Rose looks better, like maybe she’s not drinking so much anymore, and there’s this sort of sweet moment where they actually seem to connect again for their first time since earlier in the movie. And then the doctor comes up to George and says, “Look, I don’t know what happened. The person who notably is not there is Peter. They’re all at his funeral shortly after that. And then Phil also has a cut on his hand, which is also crucial to him contracting the disease.īloomer: I think that’s right. But much, much earlier, you heard a minor character say something about looking out for an anthrax outbreak, but what does Pete do? His long-term plan is that he skins this animal so that he has this anthrax infected hide. He may be the most unreadable character of the four. We don’t really know exactly what Pete’s motivations are. And this is what I really didn’t get until both a conversation with Kodi Smit-McPhee, who plays Pete, and seeing the movie a second time, is that he’s got this slow-burn plan to kill the man who is tormenting his mother, and possibly his other motivation for killing him is anxiety provoked by this flirtation and this strange connection that they have. But we’ve already seen that he’s obsessed with dissection, right? We’re not going to necessarily spin out some sort of murder plot from that. So, we see, yes, that he finds a dead cow on the trail during his ride and starts dissecting it. I think that’s a really good misdirect on Campion’s part. And we don’t think much of it at the time because he’s prone to cutting up animals in this movie. But then when Phil’s about to lose it, Pete comes and says, “Oh, well I have some hide that you can use.” And we know earlier in the movie, Pete, on his own, found a dead cow and started cutting it up. Bloomer: It sets up what we know is going to be a volcanic reaction when he returns.
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