First Cow’s Orion Lee on onscreen male friendships

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We’re used to onscreen relationships between men to either be full of fast quips or fast punches. Rarely do you see what’s on display in First Cow.

bears the beloved indie director’s trademark stoicism and taciturn characters and centres its story on two unlikely friends in 1820 frontier Oregon.

It’s a brief interlude and it’s not until their reunion in a makeshift town, the kind with dirt-floored wooden shacks dotted around a grand mansion owned by the richie-rich Chief Factor , that their friendship starts to take root. The low-key milk heist is the story, but the core of the movie is the quiet friendship between the two men. It’s not the usual flash-bang fiery screen friendship with fast quips, angst, eventual blows and then dramatic gestures. It’s also a friendship of equals in a place and at a time when getting one-up over someone else is how you “conquer”.

“The problem is, then unconsciously, we feel, ‘Well, that’s the right way and if I’m not that way, then I’m in the wrong.’”’s Cookie and King-Lu slowly develops – which is how it happens for most people, Lee said – and the rhythm of Reichardt’s dialogue, co-written with Jonathan Raymond, is leisurely paced, allowing the relationship to find its grooves before carefully dialling up the urgency.

 

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