This is were I'm at too. You basically spend close to 2 hours to get a reveal that "kinda" explains everything. But the movie was waaay too dramatic for stuff that weren't that big of a deal, specially in 1925. Pete's trying to get Phil in his pants was
Like, I'm not sure why Phil is the bad guy. He's a short tempered closet homosexual cowboy in the early 1900s. He's childish and jelous of Dunst's character but we are not given enough to understand why Phil is the driving force of her going into the deep end and becoming an alcoholic. She has an awkward dinner and kinda embarrasses herself but that was George's fault, for the most part.
We don't even know why George is an a$$hole to his brother all movie
The most interesting part was Pete. His paycho ass was at least compelling.
Thing to me was that they were not the "good guys" at all