127 minute running time, so 30 minutes too long … I was too dense to understand what this movie was about and forgot all about the kid’s prologue blurb … I only got it after reading this. I understood the gay cowboy thing, but not young lurch as killer to protect his ma. Campion likes to film stringy muscular cowboys cavorting in the nude … she even included a token black cowboy! No wonder John Farr recommended it (“underneath Phil’s swagger we sense emotional turbulence and a painful vulnerability,” oh spare me). I wasn’t thrilled, obviously. How many cruel gay cowboy movies do we need?