What do people think of "Killers of the Flower Moon"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the white men were sooooo evil why did the Indian women keep marrying them over and over year after year?

Well they were and they did. This movie was based on a non fiction book. I highly recommend it to everyone.
It was riveting.
I haven't seen the movie because i cant imagine how it could live up to the book.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the white men were sooooo evil why did the Indian women keep marrying them over and over year after year?

Internalized racism. But also plenty of people marry people they don’t realize are evil.

I believe if they were married to white people they didn’t have to have a guardianship controlled by a government official. Many Natives were declared incompetent intentionally to give them a tax advantage on their wealth derived from the oil/land value. If they weren’t the US imposed massive taxes on their money so many Natives willingly signed guardianship documents. This means every time they wanted to spend money they needed to ask a guardian and there was a long bureaucratic process. If they were married to a white person they could act as their guardian giving them more freedom as they were married.

In the movie, Mollie still has to ask her guardian for money to go to Washington DC even though she is married to Ernest. So that theory is not valid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've wanted to watch this movie ever since I read the book. I'm certain the movie won't hold up, but the story itself is riveting.

The book is ten times better than the cartoon-ish movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the white men were sooooo evil why did the Indian women keep marrying them over and over year after year?

Because the Indian men were worse.

What I am surprised is that not more Indian women went trans or lesbian instead, given how tolerant, peaceful and spiritual their beliefs were.

[Anonymous]

I liked the movie better than the book. The book is dry, not well written, and focuses on the formation of the FBI (of little interest to me).

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]If the white men were sooooo evil why did the Indian women keep marrying them over and over year after year?[/quote]

What’s your point in asking this question? People marry evil people all the time, knowingly, unknowingly, thinking they can “change them”, and any number of other reasons.

[Anonymous]

Horribly boring. Didn’t keep my attention. I happen to love Leo as an actor, too. He’s been in many wonderful movies. But he has a recent proclivity for too long and boring movies. Great vanity projects for his abilities but horrible to watch: this one, the one a few years back with Brad Pitt and set around the Manson murders (3 hours of my life I’ll never get back), and the Revenant (snooze fest).

I’ll also add, I do t care what anyone says, I loved Titanic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the white men were sooooo evil why did the Indian women keep marrying them over and over year after year?

Because the Indian men were worse.

What I am surprised is that not more Indian women went trans or lesbian instead, given how tolerant, peaceful and spiritual their beliefs were.

Jeez, you don't "go" lesbian or trans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Leo is a good actor, but all his latest roles were him keeping his mouth down in some contortion.
He looks like any beer-drinking German today.
I think he should have taken on a role in some huge action or superhero movie. It would have made him more money and he would have kept his looks longer.
And yes, this might be bigotted, but he lives off his looks. Why not sue both?

Yes, his mouth is in that weird downturn the entire movie. It didn't make him look more like the real Ernest, maybe he was going for more villainous. The real Mollie was not as attractive as the actress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would’ve gladly watched a movie about Mollie and her sisters hanging out and talking sht instead of De Niro playing a gangster for the 1000th time.

+1

[Anonymous]

It took me a while to finish this movie. It was very slow at times and somewhat boring. I can’t for the life of me figure out what Mollie saw in Ernest to begin with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the white men were sooooo evil why did the Indian women keep marrying them over and over year after year?

Internalized racism. But also plenty of people marry people they don’t realize are evil.

I believe if they were married to white people they didn’t have to have a guardianship controlled by a government official. Many Natives were declared incompetent intentionally to give them a tax advantage on their wealth derived from the oil/land value. If they weren’t the US imposed massive taxes on their money so many Natives willingly signed guardianship documents. This means every time they wanted to spend money they needed to ask a guardian and there was a long bureaucratic process. If they were married to a white person they could act as their guardian giving them more freedom as they were married.

In the movie, Mollie still has to ask her guardian for money to go to Washington DC even though she is married to Ernest. So that theory is not valid.

That may be an oversight on the director. The entire premise of how this worked was white man marries Native, gets guardianship then kills them for their headright. NPR has more information on that. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165619070/osage-headrights-killers-of-the-flower-moon-fletcher-lawsuit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took me a while to finish this movie. It was very slow at times and somewhat boring. I can’t for the life of me figure out what Mollie saw in Ernest to begin with.

Look at the photo above. These women were ugly as hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saw the trailer today when DH and I went to see "Dumb Money" (it was good). But this "Killers of the Flower Moon" movie is all miscast. Leonardo DiCaprio never could actually act, but once upon a time his youth and his looks made up for his lack of actual talent. I cringed at him hard in this trailer. I like Robert De Niro, and the story itself seems interesting.

Am I the only one who found it weird to see Leo DiCaprio kiss an actual adult woman?

It’s an interesting micro historic moment movie. Lots about human nature.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It took me a while to finish this movie. It was very slow at times and somewhat boring. I can’t for the life of me figure out what Mollie saw in Ernest to begin with.

Look at the photo above. These women were ugly as hell.

Why because she looks Native? Sorry not everyone can conform to your European beauty standards.