From the beginning it was clear that the style of the movie would be slow and deliberate. The Robbie Robertson score was the heartbeat of the story and early dialogue reiterated the Osage Indian way of communicating with the White Man.
While the book takes the point of view of the investigation and the FBI, the movie follows Ernest Burkhart (Leo DiCaprio) and is a study on the situation he found himself if between his uncle, who befriended the community in order to get as close as possible for evil purpose, and his Osage wife, who's family and community were under attack.
To see Ernests' struggle was like watching an analogy for how a general population can be led into temptation without remorse. To see the plight of the Osage community switches the focus back onto true American History, not a black eye, but straight out thievery.
The details in the book could not be expressed in the cinema due to the need to focus on the story, so it's far from a documentary recreation, but it is a careful, poignant and meaningful recreation of a story inside American History that some may not want to see for admission that our country's heart may be in the right place (eventually when they benefit from it) but their hand is always in your pocket.
Headrights, inheritance, not being allowed to handle one's own money and indifference to life. It's all here as well as the personal story of Molly Butkhart (Lily Gkadstone). She's as stoic as one can be amidst such evil. It's her who the movie focuses at the end as it's really her story and who you're thinking about leaving the theater.
Robert DiNero is fine as Willian Hale, if not simply obvious. But since he understands his prey better than anyone, he is able to manipulate the events the way the director, Martin Scorsese manipulates the audience. The appearance of other famous actors towards the end of the long movie experience was charming but distracting.
This will play out on Apple TV but I'm glad to have seen it in the auditory confines among respectful theater goers. This was a worth Cinefile Event.
While the book takes the point of view of the investigation and the FBI, the movie follows Ernest Burkhart (Leo DiCaprio) and is a study on the situation he found himself if between his uncle, who befriended the community in order to get as close as possible for evil purpose, and his Osage wife, who's family and community were under attack.
To see Ernests' struggle was like watching an analogy for how a general population can be led into temptation without remorse. To see the plight of the Osage community switches the focus back onto true American History, not a black eye, but straight out thievery.
The details in the book could not be expressed in the cinema due to the need to focus on the story, so it's far from a documentary recreation, but it is a careful, poignant and meaningful recreation of a story inside American History that some may not want to see for admission that our country's heart may be in the right place (eventually when they benefit from it) but their hand is always in your pocket.
Headrights, inheritance, not being allowed to handle one's own money and indifference to life. It's all here as well as the personal story of Molly Butkhart (Lily Gkadstone). She's as stoic as one can be amidst such evil. It's her who the movie focuses at the end as it's really her story and who you're thinking about leaving the theater.
Robert DiNero is fine as Willian Hale, if not simply obvious. But since he understands his prey better than anyone, he is able to manipulate the events the way the director, Martin Scorsese manipulates the audience. The appearance of other famous actors towards the end of the long movie experience was charming but distracting.
This will play out on Apple TV but I'm glad to have seen it in the auditory confines among respectful theater goers. This was a worth Cinefile Event.
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