It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living

being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast about it to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here again with Keith Phipps and Genevieve Koski.

On last week's show, we talked about deliverance, John Borman's 1972 survival thriller, about four Atlanta business businessman whose masculinity is put to the test

when they face the twin hostilities of nature and mountain men on a weekend canoe trip down

river.

Masculinity is also the primary theme of this week's film, Jane Campion's New Western, The Power

of the Dog.

Set in 1925, Montana, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a wealthy rancher

who has a habit of sizing up the week and bullying them for sport.

When it's put upon brother George, played by Jesse Plemons, Mary's Rose, a widow played by

Kirsten Dunst, Phil finds a new target for his hostility.

As Rose struggles to settle into her new life on the ranch, eventually turning to drink, her teenage son, Peter, played by Cody Smit

McPhee, looks like a true fish out of water, with a wispy frame and an intellectual manner that

particularly bothers Phil. Working from Thomas Savage's 1967 novel, Campion picks away the roots of Phil's volatile

behavior while revealing the impact of his toxic masculinity on everyone around him, not least

himself.

We will talk about it after the break.

Thank you. We will talk about it after the break. I wonder, what little lady made these?

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