Phil is non-confrontational hiding in rooms with his banjo and letting his absence speak more than his presence yet he wields an intense psychological strength over the other characters in the film that is simultaneously gentle and vicious. It is the 1925 in the vast rural outback of southwestern Montana despite the new century and the encroachments of modern conveniences very much still the rugged Old West. The Power Of The Dog About That Ending The New York Times For 25 years now two brothers both in their forties Phil and George Burbank have run the familys cattle ranch the biggest and most profitable spread in the state. . Phil begins to taunt Rose and Peter showing. The Power of the Dog. This is part of how. In The Power of the Dog Phil is quiet delivering stoic lines a few at a time in the true style of the classic Western. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son Phil torments them until he. One day Georg