Lily Gladwell just became the first native woman to ever win a Golden Globe and though I do not put too much stock in the Golden Globes it was still a great moment. That said, as happy as I am for her, I didn’t see Killers of the Flower Moon in theaters. And as it is inevitably going to be an Oscar contender I needed to see it before nominations came out. I will say that I resisted this movie because I really don’t like Scorsese. His movies are boring and repetitive and I take issue with anyone who appoints themselves the end all, be all of film. That said, I am going into this movie a little bit biased against him. So here we go with my official review of Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Overall I think the movie was fine. I would personally give it an 8/10, no movie over 3 hours gets a score higher than that. Lily was incredible and definitely deserves her Oscar but I think we need to stop treating this movie as some groundbreaking feat of filmmaking. Film bros just deepthroat Scorsese’s boots so hard like everything he does is sent from God. But the reality is this wasn’t his story to tell and it would have been told better from an Osage writer, or any native writer for that matter. Mollie as a character was severely underdeveloped and most of the screetime was given to showing the white men and their motives. Not nearly enough time was spent with Mollie and her mental and emotional state following her loss.
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