Anyone else feel like The Power of the Dog is massively overrated?

It's definitely overrated, mainly due to the gender of its director. However, it's not a "bad" movie. I read the book before going, and it's a very close adaptation, the closest adaptation of a novel I've viewed in a while. So all the good things about it come from the book being good, not from Campion. In fact, even though it's close, she still manages to miss some of the essence of the novel, which isn't surprising considering the novel has an omniscient narrator. Characterizations aren't as full, and Phil's intelligence and ethics, which are so important to his character, are just given lip service with the mention of a Yale education. Instead he's portrayed as just an "evil male".

Two annoying things are Peter's opening words right at the start which reveal too much about the trajectory of the story. Then the music is a bit overdone. The atonal music plays in an insistent, driving manner during those climactic scenes when silence would have been more appropriate. I'm not sure why they did that.

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