Review of First Cow

First Cow (2019)
7/10
Slow, dark, atmospheric story fragments
26 August 2020
This was the 1st movie I had seen in a real theater in months. Otherwise, I might have bailed after 10 minutes. It is slow to develop, with a prologue that doesn't make sense. The forests of Oregon is a wonderful character, but I'm not terribly interested, especially since the natural-light shooting makes everything dark. The story is told in fragments, with missing explanations of the intervals.

The two guys meet in the forest, then later in a saloon, where they form a bromance / business partnership, the latter of which requires stealing milk from the 1st cow in the territory. In turn, each guy bounces between greed and wariness of being found out.

I suppose as an art movie, things don't have to make sense, including the backstory of the 1st meeting.
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