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 Phil also has a cut on his hand, which is also crucial to him contracting the disease. 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. You honestly don’t know.īloomer: It sets up what we know is going to be a volcanic reaction when he returns. So, that kind of reversal of the power dynamic, I thought at that point in the movie, once you see it a second time, all makes a lot of sense, but it’s something that’s very hard to read. And it is really true that Peter is starting to take back the reins already in that scene, right? I mean, when he asks, “Were you naked?,” he is needling Phil in a very Phil-like way to his face. And I think Pete asks the question, “How old were you when you befriended Bronco Henry? What was the age difference between you?” And it’s pretty clearly set out that it’s the same as the current age difference between Peter and Phil, right? So, you start to think at that moment that there’s some sort of seduction being set in place, but like you say, exactly who is seducing whom and for what purpose remains mysterious. Well, that scene we mentioned in the barn with the saddle and the stories about Bronco Henry also explicitly makes the point.
And the first time you watch it, you maybe assume that Phil’s eventually going to snap on him, but it goes a different direction. And the movie goes on like that where Pete has a lot more agency than you think, especially in the relationship with Phil, and he increasingly starts to feel like an equal to him. He’s like, “Oh, I need to learn how innards work.” And you’re like, OK.
There’s the scene where he brings his mother a rabbit, and then-let it be said that it’s not a good movie for rabbits-the next thing you know he has dissected it.
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