“What kind of man would I be if I didn’t help my mother?” So says Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) at the start of “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s quiet-yet-menacing neo-Western.
We hear Peter say these words before we’ve even met him, and it will take almost the entire film before we find out what they truly mean.
With this moment, Campion, adapting the novel by Thomas Savage, is setting a trap.
The entire film feels like that; like something hypnotizing us, lulling us in, ready to strike us down at the very last second.
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