12.07.2021 - By Cheryl Quimba and Joe Hall
played by Benedict Cumberbatch, roughly castrates a bull with a knife, then with his bare hands. This is maybe a representative scene for much of the tense hypermasculinity/repressed sexuality at play in the movie, or maybe it's a way of showing the violence that Phil is capable of. It's a taut, tight, suspenseful Western -- with a twist ending (that we very helpfully spoil!).