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Post by LokisMom on Jan 25, 2024 16:29:00 GMT 1
Scorsese takes a compelling true story of a town full of opportunist murderers ran by a local rancher and flattens it out with too many overly long scenes. Leonardo DiCaprio borrows Woody Harrelson’s jaw for most of the film and his character is about stupid as they get.
We watch as him murder his wife’s family and even starts slowly murdering her, but as if she is aware of his actions, but has given up. The movie doesn’t pickup until halfway once the FBI finally get involved in the investigation.
This was nominated for a lot of Oscars, but it is subpar for the director.
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Post by Merv on Jan 25, 2024 18:40:29 GMT 1
Was this on any streaming sites or did you rent/buy it?
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 25, 2024 18:45:38 GMT 1
Scorsese takes a compelling true story of a town full of opportunist murderers ran by a local rancher and flattens it out with too many overly long scenes. Leonardo DiCaprio borrows Woody Harrelson’s jaw for most of the film and his character is about stupid as they get. We watch as him murder his wife’s family and even starts slowly murdering her, but as if she is aware of his actions, but has given up. The movie doesn’t pickup until halfway once the FBI finally get involved in the investigation. This was nominated for a lot of Oscars, but it is subpar for the director. I enjoyed the film thoroughly - I just watched it last night. As someone who read and admired Grann's book, it always bothered me that he presented the story as a whodunnit. I already knew who did it when I started reading the book, and I wasn't looking to be entertained by the Osage people's tragedy. Scorsese is much less interested in the who than in how this macabre conspiracy unfolded and exploring the doomed marriage between the leads. This approach allows the viewer to enjoy the film as art. To me, Killers of The Flower Moon is almost a horror movie - which I think it needed to be for viewers to fathom the depths of the conspirator's venal depravity. I especially enjoyed the approach to the ending summation, which could have been rendered as a series of dry and perfunctory title cards. Instead, Scorsese brought the epilogue to life in a unique format. It was a clever way of breaking the fourth wall without creating a distraction or bringing unwanted levity to the proceedings. The movie does lack the stylistic flourishes of some of Scorsese's early work, but it isn't appropriate here as we never want to make these bad guys look anything close to cool, as was the case with, say Goodfellas. Goodfellas gets away with it because its sociopaths were flawed family men unapologetically wed to the criminal lifestyle - and there seemed to be some weird nobility in that. Scorsese's taken a lot of flack for not fully assuming the Osage point of view, but those arguments are flawed and don't amount to much more than virtue signaling around issues of representation. If this story were entirely told from the Osage point of view, they would appear trapped in an invisible and impenetrable box of pain, suffering, sadness, and death with little hope of escaping or defeating their seemingly omnipresent enemy. This enemy warps science, medicine, and law to beguile their victims - like rotted herbs in a perverse inversion of the medicine bag. The Osage Braves were more accustomed to fighting an enemy whose workings they could see and understand.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 25, 2024 18:46:20 GMT 1
Was this on any streaming sites or did you rent/buy it? You can watch it for free on AppleTV+ as of a few days ago.
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