Movies Killers of the Flower Moon trailer - Scorcese/DiCaprio crime drama about 1920s murders of Osage tribe members following oil discovery on their land, update: reviews from Cannes posted

[TwinIon]

12 hours ago, SoberChef said:

I won't presume to speak for someone who is of the heritage being depicted, if she felt a certain way about it, fair enough. I do have to say, having seen this in IMAX on Sunday, there's one scene in particular that has stuck w/ me, & that is of the opening. Seeing the elders have to almost essentially have a funeral for "the way things have always been" on the precipice of their future being wiped out by whites, that ceremony & allowance of time in which to mourn such a tragedy, even now as I write it, I'm moved to tears.

 

To be fair, Marty himself said that initially it would have been through the eyes of Leo in the role of Plemmons' character, pivoting it to make it about all that Molly went through & seen through the lens of her & Ernest's ... tragic love, that was the best way to go about telling it in my opinion. Now, as for pacing, don't believe what many of the reviewers have said, I know I looked at my watch at both the 1/3 & 2/3 portions of the film.

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When Jesse shows up, it's almost exactly 2/3'rds of the way through.

 

I was thinking about that alternate reality where this story focuses on the federal agent that comes in to save the day and how difficult it would to keep that perspective from becoming a white savior story. Whatever criticisms one might have of the final product, I feel pretty strongly that it's not that.

[UpvoteShittyTakesOnly]

the story is an important one but i also get maybe more stories of natives that arent about victimhood

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

1 minute ago, UpvoteShittyTakesOnly said:

the story is an important one but i also get maybe more stories of natives that arent about victimhood

 

Which is what made Reservation Dogs so damned special (other than it being really high-quality television)!

[UpvoteShittyTakesOnly]

36 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Which is what made Reservation Dogs so damned special (other than it being really high-quality television)!

added to my list

[Moa]

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As someone who read the book, I'm really surprised that Scorsese changed the format and showed that Hale was behind the killings from the beginning.

 

[TheLeon]

5 hours ago, Moa said:

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As someone who read the book, I'm really surprised that Scorsese changed the format and showed that Hale was behind the killings from the beginning.

 

I feel like the casting alone spoils that reveal. 

[johnny]

really great movie. lily gladstone absolutely carries this film emotionally. leo and deniro may have more speaking lines but they felt like supporting characters as gladstone’s character is really the heart and soul of this film. 

[SuperSpreader]

On 10/23/2023 at 7:44 PM, Fizzzzle said:

The tricky part is that Hollywood producers don't like to portray indigenous people as bad in any way that could be considered categorical by anybody

 

They want to be portrayed like white people portray themselves when they think about their noble ancestors.