“Killers of the Flower Moon” is a movie of weighty moral force by Martin Scorsese, a director who is in command of the medium.
In the language of Hollywood, “based on a true story” usually means: “A wildly distorted account of some real event that retains a mere spectre of the truth.”
Back from the war comes Ernest Burkhart , who has decided to try his luck in this community, where his uncle, William King Hale , is a man of wealth and power. “Call me King,” Hale says, as he gives his nephew a lecture on the nobility of the Osage, and hands him a book to read. As he does this, he is sounding Ernest out, discovering a stupid, spineless, and venal personality that will prove easy to manipulate.
This is another great performance from DiCaprio; anyone can play a louse, but DiCaprio’s Ernest is a deeply confused, conflicted louse. Although he is ready to do anything and everything his uncle demands, he seems to really love Mollie. He knows the medicine he has been instructed to administer is only making her sicker, but he does it anyway, blubbering over his own bad luck.
Hale, with his glib paternalism, is an evil character, but Ernest is a failure in this department. Where his uncle has learnt to play a benevolent patrician, Ernest can’t draw a line between fact and fiction. He is unable to reconcile his feelings with the part he is expected to play in this genocidal plot. The lack of intellect that makes him malleable also renders him dangerous and unreliable.
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