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Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the poss... Read allCharismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love. Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

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I just randomly watched this movie, not knowing anything about it all, just that I like Benedict as an actor. It was slow and sort of unsettling and I had to ponder the movie for a while after it finished. Let me just say this, the devil is in the details with this one. Pay very close attention when watching it, I think it pays off pretty well. I had several 'oh crap' moments after the movie, when I started connecting the dots. To call this a Western is a bit misleading, the setting is in the west (Montana) but that really has nothing to do with the movie at all, nor should it define its genre. I can see how folks might not like this one due to the pacing and some of the subject matter but the acting really is quite good and the movie is well made. Also, let's just say the ending might pass right over some people's head if they hadn't been paying attention or had already made up their mind what the movie was about. I'd really love to say more but spoilers and all. I think this one will start out slow with audiences but will age well over time.

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Deliver My Soul from the Sword of Masculinity

Psalm 22:20, as read towards the end of THE POWER OF THE DOG, states: “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. ” But who is the dog in this situation? Depending on how you interpret Bible verses, it could be one of two people. Or it could be both; I’m sure Jane Campion would argue that. And who am I to argue against Campion? After all, she did just create a masterpiece. A masterpiece that interrogates masculinity and femininity in the brutal rolling plains of Montana.

Every frame of Campion’s Western she wrote and directed has some type of phallic or feminine imagery, from coarse bullwhips and wood logs to beautifully shot deep valleys and mountain peaks. Sometimes those images are used violently and sometimes sexually, which is no surprise. Campion works best when interrogating the vacillating themes of violence and sexuality. THE POWER OF THE DOG stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons as brothers Phil and George Burbank. While George is patient and soft, Phil is cruel and callous. George allows Phil to continuously call him “fatso” if it keeps the peace, and in one memorable scene, Phil whips a horse for no reason because of an annoyance. They have a “tenuous peace” on their ranch, one that is disrupted by the arrival of George’s new wife, Rose (Kirsten Dunst), and later, her son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Rose is visually perturbed by Phil, their relationship plays like a horror film, but she is more concerned about her teenage son and the ridicule he endures at the hands of Cumberbatch’s rancher.

From the very beginning, when Phil laughs off Peter’s craftsmanship at creating paper flowers that causes Rose to weep, to a tense scene where Rose is ridiculed when trying to play on her new piano — each time she tries to play results with Phil outplaying her with his banjo — Rose is keenly aware of just how cruel Phil can be, untethering her from a fragile disposition.

But it’s the relationship between Phil and Peter that surprises, one that questions the nature of masculinity and femininity without a firm resolution (which we have to admit makes the best films). Although the true nature of Phil and Peter may elude most viewers, what I can say is that Phil has a capacity to love that most won’t understand other than many repressed, closeted men. And Peter? I’ll just say the Zodiac Killer would’ve served well under his tutelage. Perhaps I give too much away, but a film is supported by how its characters leave one contemplative. Cumberbatch and Smit-McPhee do an incredible job at conveying the warring emotions within each of them. Cumberbatch plays against type (even though he brings a longing for something to all his roles). Smit-McPhee is the true breakout, bringing a quiet snakiness layered upon shed skins. Plemons was perfectly cast as the even-tempered George, not stunt casting for natural chemistry with Dunst, whose work encompasses her entire filmography. From the naivety and silliness portrayed in her younger roles, to, well, the melancholia of MELANCHOLIA and nervous mania on display in FARGO, Dunst plays her role with full range.

What’s at the heart of THE POWER OF THE DOG? Betrayal? Cruelty? Writer Annie Proulx of “Brokeback Mountain” described the novel by Thomas Savage Campion based her film off of as “gripping and powerful”. Both her novel’s adaptation and Campion’s work have those attributes in common. Both present masculinity as both a hindrance and a conduit to one’s desires. Masculinity is a double-edged sword and one must wield it at their peril.… Expand

10 stories about dog love and fidelity

Today "RG" has collected the most touching facts about what those we have tamed are capable of.

1. Ural "Hachiko"

A shaggy red-haired mongrel has been waiting for its owner for almost two years in the Sverdlovsk region on the Yekaterinburg-Krasnoufimsk highway. Local television people have already filmed a lot of stories about her.

She watches all the passing cars. It approaches those who stop, but not close. According to one version, its owner died in a car accident, according to another, the dog was simply thrown away.

Truckers feed the animal. Olivier and cakes were brought for the new year. But she never ate them.

Many wanted to take the dog away, but she won't let anyone near her. Once a man came to her, who assured that this was his missing dog named Kuzya. However, the dog did not recognize the man. She still lives on the sidelines. Compassionate residents of local villages made a booth for her.

2. Booth for Mukhtar

A new booth for Mukhtar from the Krasnodar city of Krymsk, which was flooded in July 2012, appeared next to the house where his mistress lived. Faina Chuprina died in that terrible flood. Her faithful dog Mukhtar was waiting for the woman in the ruins of the house for five months. Then the neighbors built him a booth.

They hope that someday he will find new owners.

3. On rails 1.5 thousand kilometers

The journey from Astrakhan to Perm lasted four months for a pit bull terrier named Sam.

The dog was lost at the railway station in Astrakhan. Heartbroken owner Alexander Petrov did everything to find her. "I had all my thoughts only about my Sam: where is he, what's wrong with him," the owner recalled. But the dog sank into the water.

One day Alexander came across an ad on the Internet saying that a dog had been found at a railway station in Perm. And her photograph was given. Alexander immediately recognized Sam. It turned out that the dog ran after the train in which the owner left. She covered 1.5 thousand kilometers, crossed the country from south to north.

Alexander found and took the dog. Now everyone is happy, but Sam now bypasses train stations.

4. Every day with the ringing of bells

A German Shepherd named Tommy lived for 7 years in the home of the Italian Maria Margherita Locchi in San Donacci, near the city of Brindisi. The woman picked up Tommy in the field. Someone threw the puppy away. When the woman died, the faithful dog began to run every day to the church, where he and his mistress came. At the funeral of Mary Margaret, Tommy joined the mourners, and since then he always appears in the church, as soon as the bells ring announcing the beginning of the service.

5. Survive September 11

On September 11, 2001, blind computer scientist Omar Eduardo Riviera was working on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center with his Labrador Retriever guide dog Dorado.

After a plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into the tower, panic began. Riviera did not hope that he would be rescued. But he tried to save the dog by unhooking the leash. “I thought this was the end - the noise and heat were terrifying, but I wanted to give Dorado a chance to escape. So I unhooked the leash, patted him on the head, pushed him and ordered him to leave,” Riviera said. The dog was thrown down by a crowd of people evacuating. However, the devoted dog did not even think of running away. After a few minutes, he buried himself at the feet of his master.

Dorado and another employee of the center helped Riviera down from the 71st floor. Shortly after they got outside, the building collapsed.

6. Love and the ocean are not a barrier

In the summer of 1991, a photo essay was published in a provincial Japanese newspaper, which told about the touching story of dog love.

A fisherman from the island of Ako Nakamura had a dog named Shiro. In January 1991, Nakamura moved to another island - Zamami. “One morning,” says Nakamura, “a few days after I settled on Zamami, I saw that Shiro was standing on the pier and staring at the rocks of Ako Island in the distance. There was such longing in his eyes that I was frightened: "I love my dog very much. I couldn't understand what happened. Shiro stood motionless for almost an hour. And the next day he disappeared. He appeared only in the evening - tired and wet." The disappearance of the dog was repeated day after day. But in the evening she always returned to the owner. The fisherman decided to trace where his dog was disappearing: “I saw that early in the morning Shiro came to the pier, stared at the distant island for several minutes, and then threw himself into the icy water and swam. I was shocked. It’s two and a half miles to the island of Ako "Did he swim there? But why? I called my friend on Ako by radiotelephone and asked him to find out if Shiro swam there and why. "

A friend followed the dog's path. It turned out that every day he sailed to his girlfriend - a dog who lived in the neighborhood before the fisherman left the island. Shiro's lover's name was Marilyn. But after the "date" Shiro returned to his master, whom he also loved very much. All of Japan followed this canine romance. Thousands of tourists came to the island of Ako specifically to see the famous dog with their own eyes. Shiro died in 2000 at the age of 17. The story of his love was immortalized in a monument.

7. Life goes on

The story of dog love in 2011 shocked the inhabitants of northern Yakutsk, who discussed it for a long time on the forums.

For two weeks in the most severe frosts, the dog - an ordinary mongrel - did not leave his dead girlfriend - huskies. The drama played out on the outskirts of the city. On the territory of the garage cooperative, local residents found a Yakutian Laika dead and already covered with snow. Next to her lay another creature - also a dog, still alive.

The watchman who tamed them later told the story of these dogs.

Laika and a large gray mongrel, which the keeper fed, grew up and became attached to each other. When a friend died, the dog did not leave her, hoping, probably, for a miracle. People did not dare to come up and bury the dead husky for a long time.

But the dog, who was on a sad watch, was brought food from all over the city, and a warm bed was provided. One married couple tried to take the dog home, but he escaped and returned to his original place. Only after the puppies were nailed to the mongrel, the dog cheered up and even began to play with them. Life goes on.

8. Volgograd "Mu-Mu"

An instructive story of a dog's disinterested love for a man took place in Volgograd. The well-known saying of the English naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell is quite suitable for her: "The more I think about people, the more I love dogs."

A mongrel named Richie lived in the same family. The dog was restless: it barked out of place and out of place, whined, howled, which made the neighbors very angry. At the family council, the owners decided to get rid of Richie, following the plot of Turgenev's "Mu-Mu". The head of the family was assigned to do the dirty deed. But, once near the water, the man walked along the coast back and forth for a long time, not daring to drown the unfortunate animal. And suddenly ... fell off a steep cliff and fell into cold water. Although in that place it was not deep, but the spasm reduced the muscles, and the man began to sink. The dog rushed into the water and with great difficulty pulled the owner ashore. Richie was welcomed home like a real hero. Neighbors no longer complain, only the owner is ashamed to look the dog in the eyes.

9. All life in the cemetery

Greyfriars cemetery in the Scottish city of Edinburgh was founded in 1561. Many people have found their last refuge here. But not far from the human graves there is also a churchyard of a dog named Bobby.

The dog was honored to be buried here because of his extraordinary devotion to his owner. This history is already more than 150 years old: in 1850, the gardener John Gray settled in Edinburgh. But John could not find a job as a gardener, so he got a job as a night watchman in the police.

A few years later, John adopted a Skye Terrier as his assistant and named him Bobby. The couple began to patrol the city blocks. This went on for two years, then John became seriously ill and died. He was buried in Greyfriars Cemetery.

Bobby settled on the owner's grave. At first, the cemetery officials tried to drive the dog out of there, but at the first opportunity, Bobby returned back. The stubborn dog was left alone and even made a canopy next to John's grave. In 1867, a law was passed in Scotland, according to which all dogs in the city must be licensed, otherwise they were subject to destruction.

Bobby had no owner, so he could be captured and killed at any moment. Then Sir William Chambers - the Lord Mayor of Edinburgh - paid for Bobby's license and handed him a collar with a copper inscription, which indicated that this was Bobby from the Greyfriars cemetery.

Bobby died in January 1872 at the owner's grave. The dog was 16 at the time. He lived in the cemetery for 14 of them. In Scotland, it is illegal to bury animals directly within a cemetery. Therefore, a grave was dug especially for Bobby in front of the entrance gate, not far from the grave of John Gray. Bobby's headstone reads: "Greyfriars Bobby - died January 14, 1872 - at the age of 16. Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to all of us."

10. Monument of devotion

Russia also has its own monument of devotion. In the summer of 1995, a car accident occurred on the Togliatti ring road. In one of the colliding cars was a young couple and their shepherd dog. People died, but the dog miraculously survived.

7 years, in the heat and cold, the dog guarded the place where his owners died. The locals gave him a new nickname - Konstantin (translated from Greek as "permanent", "faithful"). Whoever tried to take it away failed. The dog ran away and returned to the scene of the accident. She was waiting for the cherry "ten" - the car in which the unfortunate family rode.

The dog died in 2002. Soon, on the roadside, where Konstantin was waiting for his owners, a poster appeared with the inscription: "To the dog who taught us love and devotion." But the poster was constantly blown away by the wind. Then the Togliatti public came up with the initiative to erect a real bronze monument to Konstantin. A year after the death of the dog, a monument was erected with the inscription "Monument of Devotion". The residents of Togliatti collected money for it.

Now everyone passing by is met by a bronze dog. The inscription on the monument is the same as on the poster: "To the dog who taught us love and devotion. People."

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Elena Neprintseva, Head of the Scientific Research Department of the Moscow Zoo, Candidate of Biological Sciences:

- Dogs are social creatures. Like their closest relatives - wolves that live in complex groups in which there is a development of a communication system. They have a great need for each other. For example, wolves hunt together. And thanks to this, they can even defeat such a large animal as an elk. Wolves were not tamed by humans, but dogs were. And dogs have learned to read gestures, habits of people. They perceive it as a kind of language. Much of the behavior of dogs is due to the environment in which they were brought up. If the puppy initially lives with a person, he begins to interact only with people, and is afraid of his relatives. If, on the contrary, it turns out to be among dogs, then it fears a person.

But cats, which have also become pets, are loners by nature. Just like the larger and predatory representatives of their species - lions, tigers ... The biological feature of cats is the lack of a need to live in a group. Cats treat people mainly as a source of food.

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The dog is a true friend and devoted helper of man. She has proven this over the course of many millennia and proves it hourly to this day. "A dog is the only creature on earth that loves you more than itself," said author Josh Billings. On July 30, Friendship Day, RIA Novosti offers users three touching stories of the relationship between a person and a dog.

Loyalty until the end of life

At the beginning of the last century, first all of Japan, and then the whole world, learned about a dog named Hachiko. The dog of the Akita Inu breed daily accompanied his owner, a university professor, to work, to the entrance to the bus station, and then returned there again at 3 pm to meet the owner.

On May 21, 1925, the professor had a heart attack. The doctors could not save his life, and he never returned home. Hachiko was eighteen months old at that time. On that day, he did not wait for the owner, but began to come to the station every day, patiently waiting for him until late in the evening.

They tried to place the dog in the houses of the owner's friends and relatives, but he invariably returned to the station. Local merchants fed Hachiko, admiring his perseverance.

The dog became known throughout Japan in 1932 after the publication in one of the largest newspapers in Tokyo of the article "The faithful old dog awaits the return of his master, who died seven years ago." The story won the hearts of the Japanese, and curious people began to come to Shibuya Station to look at the dog. 21 April 19At the age of 34, a monument was unveiled to Hachiko, and the Japanese brought the dog himself to the opening of the monument.

Hachiko came to the station for nine years until his death on March 8, 1935. Dead Hachiko was found on the street near the station. After his death, due to the wide resonance, a day of mourning was declared in the country.

During the Second World War, the monument to Hachiko was destroyed - metal was needed for military needs. But Japan did not forget the dog - and after the end of the war, in August 1948, the monument was restored. Today, the statue of Hachiko near Shibuya Station is a meeting place for lovers, and the image of a dog in Japan has become an example of selfless love and fidelity.

"Lesson to all of us"

In Scotland, in Edinburgh, there is also a monument to a dog - Skye Terrier Bobby Greyfriars, who guarded the grave of his owner for fourteen years. The owner of the dog for two years was a night policeman, he died of tuberculosis.

Bobby outlived his master by fourteen years, he spent all these years on his grave, only occasionally running back to a restaurant near the cemetery where he was fed, or to the nearest houses to wait out the frosts.

In 1867, Bobby, like a dog without an owner, wanted to be destroyed, but the Lord Provost (Mayor) of Edinburgh, Sir William Chambers, took the dog under the responsibility of the municipality. Bobby received a collar with an engraving of thick brass plate and the inscription "Greyfriars Bobby from the Lord Mayor, 1867, authorized". This collar is currently on display at one of Edinburgh's museums.

Bobby's memorial was created during the dog's lifetime in 1871 and was unveiled after his death in November 1873 in front of the local bar, Bobby's Greyfriars. The faithful dog was buried not far from the grave of its owner. May 19At the age of 81, a red granite stone was placed on the dog's grave. The inscription on the stone reads: "Greyfriars Bobby - died January 14, 1872 - age 16 - May his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all."

Man is a friend to a dog

networks made recently known to the whole world 49John Anger, an American from Wisconsin, and his dog Shep. And the story of their friendship began about 20 years ago, when Shep saved his master from suicide, who was having a hard time breaking up with his bride. One day, while walking his dog, John, unable to cope with depression, approached a cliff with thoughts of suicide. Unger said that it was Shep's look that sobered him and brought him back to reality. The young man thought about who would take care of Shep. With age, the dog developed severe arthritis. The dog's joints hurt so much that she could not move on her own. The veterinarians offered to save Shep from suffering and put him to sleep, but John did not want to do this with his friend and tried to make his life easier for him.

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A very long friendship: 70 years like one day Five friends - Boris, Ilya, Arkady, Vladimir and Anatoly - have known each other for 70 years, their friendship survived the war, and moving around the USSR, and severe illnesses. They are already over 80, but for each other they are still funny boys.

Every day for many years, an American took his dog to the lake and held him in the water for several hours in his arms. In the water, Shep felt better, he could sleep a little. Pictures where John holds a 20-year-old pet in his arms, standing up to his shoulders in water, went around the entire Internet, people began to transfer money for the treatment of the dog.

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