What's the best 3+ Hour movie you've seen?

This opened my eyes to the fact Native Americans are victims of one of the greatest/most successful attempts of ethnic cleansing, and it is rarely addressed.

The ending really sold the movie for me. The commentary of this story being told as a radio show in the 60s(?) as entertainment was pretty spot on for how entertainment is produced today. But to have Marty himself come out and give the final words as the story he is telling comes to an end, really hit home for me. The cycle will seemingly always continue. We saw it with the Osage, and we see it in our world today. 100 years and nothing’s changed.

Even today, there is a crisis of murdered and missing indigenous women, which is not being addressed by the authorities.

Killers of the Flower Moon was raw, heartfelt, violent, and frightening all at the same time. We appreciate your insights on this.

It was incredibly intense. My wife and I enjoyed it very much. Loved Marty coming out at the end to give the whole thing the bow on it by giving a clear message on what happened, or what didn’t happen, and just how disgusting and despicable the treatment of the Osage and the Natives were, just absolutely unforgiving and terrible.

Despite being 30 minutes longer than Oppenheimer, Killers Of The Flower Moon is an amazing film and one of the best of his filmography.

So the reason they did the perspective from the villain is because they want the audience to feel the distrust and betrayal the Osage felt. So there is a reason behind the perspective they took in this movie.

i just saw this with my nana in theaters we were blown away and researching doing a whole history class afterwards it is insane

You opened my eyes in countless small details I didn’t quite pick up on with my first viewing. Makes me want to watch it again given how carefully crafted this film was. Loved the movie and this video, excellent work!

I actually like the fact that movies are getting longer. I’m more of a movie watcher than a series any day.

We live in a world ruled by people like DeNiros character..

ok hear me out… i never knew the story of the Osage nor had i read the book and i only saw ONE trailer for this movie. so imagine my utter shock when the story in my head of Ernest and Molly retaliating for all the killings and seeking righteous vengeance was NOT the movie i saw 🤣 seeing Leo play so many heroes over the years really did alter my viewing experience when we didn’t see the babyface turn i was waiting for in my mind… all that being said, this was a truly sad and heartbreaking story to see ppl who only thought others had the best intentions for everyone in mind were slowly picked off by the coyotes hungry for their wealth

I always find myself torn on these subjects. It always annoyed the fuck out of me because as I look at these comments down below, I see a lot of people being along the lines of "wow! this really opened my eyes to native Americans mistreatment." And I think its great that these conversations are taking place now, but there is a big part of my heart that's extremely bitter to the fact that it takes a movie by Martin Scorsese with Leo "Oscar Bait" DeCap to really show everyone how bad American history was for Native Americans. When such atrocities are fairly prominent in history books I mean hell there was an actual slogan called "kill the indian, save the man" where there was an actual attempt at ethnic cleansing and really tore apart many families to which the repercussions can be felt to this day. That the Red Skins Football team was allowed to be a team for faaaar longer than it should've have been or has been. Or more recently how in New Mexico Native Americans are being kidnapped and trafficked to take advantage of federal payments of Alcoholic recovery programs only to be abandoned in a place they don't know with little to no help. This all sounds so patronizing to me... But, just because Im bitter doesn't mean that this can't be helpful or maybe even helps pave a way for more stories about Natives. Also yes, the whole being 1% Cherokee bit drives me up a wall

The most disturbing part about this is that we've learned little from our own cruelty, because goddamn money. What a joke.

Despite sharing many similarities to Oppenheimer, I find Killers of the Flower Moon to be a great revelation of the horrific past/present while the prior to be offensive. Scorsese's choice to explore the evilness and its impact just felt more respectful than turning the destruction into spectacles. Instead of indulging in the detective's greatness, he pointed the finger at all party involved; the killers, the system, the exploiters, himself, and us, who is entertained by the pain of others.

I appreciate the perspective of wanting to see the violence against the abusers as much as the violence against the Osage, but being so close to the violence against the Osage humanises them in a way that the film doesn't offer to their abusers

2:21 DeNiro's character: Yeah, we're all trying to find the guy who did this!

It's comforting to believe the world can be divided into "normal" people and psychopaths. The real horror comes from the realization that they are one and the same.

I think Henry’s depression is because of his money because I’m pretty sure him and his wife were both entitled to money but being full blooded natives they needed a guardian (white person) to sign off on their money, so they divorced each other and remarried to get that money. That’s why she has her own store with her white husband and Henry gets drunk and parties with his white wife.

This movie gave me feelings that I’ve never really felt before. I didn’t look at my phone for the time not ONCE during the entire movie. The acting and pace of the film is so well edited it keeps you captivated the entire picture. I did except a little more from Mollys character since she was basically sick the entire time and wish they gave more backstory from why she kept choosing her actions but once the movie was over, i didn’t know weather to cry, scream, be angry… I was shaking when it was over because I felt so much adrenaline from what i just witnessed. I had to go work a 8 hour shift after i went and saw it and that was my only mistake. This is a move you need to ponder on after and allow yourself to let it all sink in on what happened to these victims. 1000000/10 movie I’ll see it again 10 times

I have a problem with Ernest was 19 at the time and Hale was 48. That changes the entire dynamic of the relationship IRL.

It's one of the best films I've ever seen, I was in that theater tearing up 😭😭😭

At the hotel I work at, some of the staff stayed at, and they were all super nice! While the actors and director all deserve praise, I would honestly see this movie (when I have time lol) just for the staff

Thanks for the masterful analysis of this important film!! You picked up on so many of the nuances that I missed because the editing rednered so many scenes lightning-fast. The true horror was that Osage women felt compelled to marry white men, and that the entire white community was complicit in crime in some fashion. The other startling fact was that the white population felt no compassion for the Indian population, even though they were intermarried with them.

This is a thoughtfully considered and insightful breakdown. Well done!

beyond how well you've articulated such a complex and intriguing movie, this is such a beautiful video essay. thank you for the work you've put into this!

"My mom was right. You keep your face like that, it's gonna get stuck" lmaoo My mom used to say the same thing lol. Good video, and humour!

On one hand, I’m happy our stories and true histories are finally coming to light and getting recognition. On the other, this felt like another ‘Dances with Wolves.’ It was a Native American movie about a white guy. Even in the previews, they only listed Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, directed by Martin Scorsese. I, along with a lot of other natives, thought “are you going to have Native Americans in your Native American movie?” I liked the film, just had those few mixed feelings. (Along with a little disgust that they were still trying to frame it as a love story til the end.) The Native American Film Festival is this month and I can’t wait to see native stories being told by native people, and I’m curious what will be available through streaming after.

Was such a good film. Worth the full movie screen to experience the vastness of the prairie landscape.

It was amazing how well constructed the film was - I looked up and found for example, photos of the house that was blown up, and when they showed the house, it looked exactly as it did in the photos. The way it was wrecked after the explosion.

This movie is simply a door. A door with a window in it. You can walk up to the door, look through the window and then make your choice. Nice door, nice window and walk away. OR you can stop and keep looking through that window either understanding what you see or realizing what you're seeing and then think about opening that door. Once you open it and go through that door you walk into a space to just realize that this movie is simply a murderous piece in a much larger puzzle with each piece just as murderous. Then you ask yourself if you have the courage to put the entire puzzle together because if it is bad as you think it is, you'll be horrified to find out that "your people" are the ones who did this. And continue to do so.

This was a great synopsis! I completely agree with you about wanting to see a John Wren biopic. The story of (probably) the only Native American in the FBI who got fired for not going by the book but then getting rehired to work this case because his talent was undeniable would be a great story

1:53 -Son, I got a question, do you like women? -That's my weakness, but only if they're under 25!

My biggest issue was that it mostly only told the story from the villains perspective, and yet again put the natives in the background. By using charismatic actors that we love, it automatically gave the bad guys charisma they didn’t deserve. As harsh as her mothers comment was, she wasn’t wrong. Her daughters trusting and marrying all these white men was ultimately the death of them.

Lily 👏 F-ing 👏 Gladstone 👏

I had to break this movie up into two sittings but I was glued to it every second. All three main actors are fantastic. Leo deserved a nomination for his role.

Native Americans/indigenous are probably one of the most misunderstood or mischaracterized groups of people because they were neither completely peaceful nor blood savages as often written down from European accounts. They this: human. What I mean is each tribe contained people who could feel anger, sadness, empathy, love, hate, etc. the thing is that Europeans had a very broadly different view of their place within creation/nature and survival than indigenous people had. While the different tribes, mostly and/or generally, lived in a structured relationship within nature and other species (exceptions being groups like the Mayans whom seemed to have a greater assertive nature within nature and other groups like some other tribes) most found a place within creation in more simplistic ways. Europeans took a more literal approach to the idea found in the beginning chapters of the Bible where God said to “subdue” creation. To that extent, Europeans had much less respect for nature and their place among other species.

It's another movie where people will come out of it saying "Poor Native Americans!" aaaaand then forget about us again in a day or two.

Thank you for TELLING the story. I almost didn’t watch another in-depth review of this movie, but glad I watched yours.

Nice review I saw the movie in the cinema and it was really good but I would not mind if it had been turned into a mini series instead in order to really flesh everything out and one thing that I really wish that the movie had brough up is the really funny fact that after Ernest died at the ripe old age of 94. His will stated that he wanted to be cremated, and his ashes spread around the Osage Hills. His son James chucked the ashes over a bridge instead.

The fact that you’re using C.R.E.A.M from Wu Tang as the background music is hilarious.

The book focused on the crimes and the fact that the FBI SURPRISINGLY handled getting the Osage some justice quite well.

Really great movie!❤ extremely sad but as a native Oklahoman it's about time for the hidden historic events to come to light.

I lost it at 'looking like Orville Redenbocker'. That was the greatest description.

Fun fact about Hale, he always boasts he is a "Friend of the Osage". And even after getting busted by the FBI and the cat is out of the bag, He still stuck to the "Friend of the Osage" title even after his release...yes the scumbag was released from his "life sentence" and continue to wore the mask that had slipped.

This movie really hit a cord. As we are watching the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the land theft of Palestine. Its really irks me how we are able to look back and think "why didn't people realise and do something". Hindsight is 2020 I guess.

Hale might be one of the biggest menaces in a movie

The view point actually adds to the point being made. You see how absolutely terrible the white men were in the movie and a few times you want to root for them and hope they do good and change their mind but they just never do and it gets worse and worse. It makes you realize that they are bad more than the native American view point would have done

17:57 trust n believe: Scorsese films have EVERY deliberate detail for the purpose of the film- so glad you caught that!!! Brendan Fraser is a seasoned enough fine actor he knows he’s coming in like a full force.

Story time: when I saw a trailer for this in the movie theater, there was a middle aged white guy who sat behind me with his wife and he said (paraphrasing) “I guess we can’t go see it because it’s woke” I’m guessing in reference to a line in the trailer that goes something like “I want to kill these white men who’ve killed my family”. It was simultaneously infuriating and blood boiling because this is literally the history of so many tribes, some that were wiped from existence. And yeah, native people called them the white settlers back in the day, they didn’t have political correctness back when all that mattered was survival. It was just ironic that he had quite a snowflake-like reaction to a culturally accurate trailer, and chooses to be ignorant to the bloody history of the establishment of the USA.

Shout out to the people who wrote the script for this video. This is great content.

Finally watched this now that it's out on streaming, and thankfully I read the book first! It made certain scenes not necessarily *easier* to see, but at least I wasn't completely blindsided.

0:03 I'm part Cherokee. And trust me, everybody has been claiming they're part Indian for a long time. Every time it's come up in conversation since I was a kid until now in my 40s, at least half the white guys in the room chime in about their supposed Indian blood.

Love how you played the CREAM instrumental for a little while there. Clever

Lily Gladstone did a good job acting with just her facial expressions because she has very little dialogue

THANK YOU for not just glossing over the fact that Hale was a high ranking Freemason. That scene where he punishes Ernest in that Freemason ritual room, is significant. It’s not something to just be overlooked. Hale also hints that he’s working for people above him, and that this whole thing isn’t just his doing, but that he’s following orders too. People think Freemasons are just some conspiracy and that they’re just a club of sorts. No. They’re the people who orchestrate every event happening around the world.

His welcome mat 'KIGY' means "klansman, I greet you"

lol you’re the second video today I saw that mentioned Swift playing in adjoining theatres. I’m so lucky each of the 3x I saw it, I couldn’t hear other movies.

I saw what you did with the indigenous inviting into your home part Thank you ❤🍉

It lied to me because Tom White is essentially the main character in the book. 💀

Lily Gladstone deserved to win😢

ayye i watch your vids all the time never expected a movie bout my people and was a background in, that you'd cover

wow the amount of things you noticed is amazing

The ost they played during the 1st trailer was God tier 💯

I’m happy anytime anytime native people stories are covered on from west to east and the mountains spanning north and south it’s depressing yet motivating being apart of a people nearly gone completely

I laughed really hard at the beginning! Really good video! 👏👏👏

The parallels with current affairs are so obvious. Devious men still committing the same crimes on peoples different from them

Tbh i like this movie much better than Oppenheimer

When he said leo looked like orville redden bocker i about died, its true omg... great analogy and retelling of the narritive my dude.. thank you haha...👍🏻👍🏻🤣🤣❤️❤️💯💯

Bought this & Openhimer yesterday & it was worth the 45$ just buying it from KZfaq alone cuz these are both movies that get better after each viewing!!! The first time its good , the second it's better & by the third time u watch both films they become a drug almost because there's something more impressive every single time u watch both films!!! That line in that scene in this film when Brendan Fraiser says : "He is saving u!!!! Dumb boy!!!!" Is the best line in the entire film & there is so much going on in this entire film that is crazy but that scene is absolutely beyond crazy asf!!!!! I love how Brenden Frasier fell off in his career for so many years but then randomly pops up & challenges Leo in a "act off" challenge in that particular scene cuz they really do both play it so damn perfect together especially him being a dimwit in a room full of FreeMasons & Oil tycoons & Lawyers & Doctors & even the towns Sheriff & just people of power in general that are all showing him how easy hes really got it made in his life & that all he literally has to do is keep his mouth shut & he can go back to his family & yeah its funny cuz he still is too damn slow & stupid to understand anything they are telling him but regardless of him being technically a murderer & stupid & dumb asf , he's still literally the only person in that entire room with a damn conscience!!!! The scene is absolutely crazy good!!!!!! Please don't hate or be sensitive of everything that i mentioned above all the other more serious tones in this film cuz trust me , i literally felt alot of things in this film probably more than u did especially Mollys character , but the acting is everything i thought i had to start paying more attention to just to get my mind off of my personal torment!!!! I finally had to stop crying over this movie after the first few times watching it considering i actually lost my latin/native girlfriend from childhood Diabetes a few months ago !!!! I had to just stop crying at one point & start looking at the acting in the film just to take my mind off of it cuz the film is too on point with Mollys character in this movie to someone like myself & it was literally destroying me too much to even be able to watch this with anyone else & too many ppl wanted to really watch this film with me really bad so i literally had to watch it a few times by myself just to get past the personal tears before i felt like watching this with anyone else because its beyond hard having your real life love actually die from diabetes in real life & then seeing Mollys character arc regardless if she doesn't die in the movie or not , her acting was so on point especially when it came to her diabetes & sickness!!!! It was all the little suttle things she did that really fucked me up watching this film the first few times even over all the brutal murders & racism!!!! This movie is unfortunately personal for me in ways that it won't be for most others!!!!!

I wish this movie was Molly’s story, not Ernest’s. I think it would have been just as, if more, impactful because the audience would have learned things when she did. While this movie did lift some indigenous voices and did a lot of things right, it still centered a white man rather than an Osage women. Also, where is the money made from the movie going? Seems like you shouldn’t profit off of their story without giving the Osage community some of the profit. (They maybe have shared the profits idk, that’s why I’m asking)

I live about an hour from pawhuska..the osage headquarters.i love that this movie brought attention to the osage.i currently live on Cherokee land.lot of history..look up frank phillips..his story is a great one.

I read the book in prison in 2019 and can’t wait to watch this movie because the book was great and eye opening

Brendan Fraser absolutely KILLED it in his cameo honestly. It added value to the film in a way that made it much more entertaining to view, and it wakes up the audience because he doesn't come in until you are 120 minutes deep into the film. As a failed law student, I noticed lawyers in courtrooms tend to act theatrical or speak passionately in an attempt to compel the judge and jury to make decisions in their favor. There are moments like the one portrayed in the film where if the defending attorney was soft-spoken that his opportunity to counsel the witness would have been refused. (i doubt if this exact situation happens in modern court, but I guess wayyy back then something like this could have happened...?)

Great video. Probably the best video essay I've seen on the film.

Best review i have seen of this yet! Glad to know i was the only one hearing "Shake it Off"

LOOOVVVEEE YOUR VIDS BRO!!!!! NGL! 🦾🦾🔥🔥😅 yu say what real ppl THINK! Ha keep goinnn !!!

I didn't see Ernest as being an idiot for being a cook in the war. I thought it showed he had someone powerful, keeping him out of combat. And that he never realized someone else was pulling strings. He just thought he was lucky. Because he's kind of an idiot.

Scorsese needs to direct a Tulsa Massacre film next.

Despite it being 3.5 hours long, the movie was an easy watch! I strongly dislike what happened to the Osage ppl, .....it was good to see this story told in film....the world needs to know what these type of people have done to almost every group of people on earth. SMH

Really great job on this video

Excellent review!

Main trick Scorcese pulled was That you still feel Ersnest's side and want him to have a happy ending until his wife stops loving him.

GREAT analysis, thanks so much for that!! It's so strange that despite being 25min longer than Oppenheimer, to me KOTFM didn't feel as long!! Of course both are absolutely masterful epics whichever our own personal preference anyway!!

I will put in on the schedule after my next Marvel movie

Rich black men have been practicing moving Black money to other communities willingly forever. Some people need to study this phenomenon, that’s quite fascinating to me.

i went to it twice and didn't pee once

Nothing could have prepared me for Leo’s teeth

Your joke about Chance the Rapper made this video a classic 😂

I remember seeing martin scorsese walking around downtown tulsa with this big ol’ white cowboy hat

"Based on a true story that is based on a true story"

Dicaprio is great at playing complete losers and wealthy Chad's, great versatility

I couldn’t finish it I fell asleep in the theatres I didn’t know it was so long and we got a late showing lol

Omg if yall want a good indigenous movie that came out recently, Slash Back on shudder is a mix of The Thing and The Goonies set in an Inuit community w a full indigenous cast/ crew it’s literally so bad ass and heartwarming I highly recommend

I really don't like Leo DiCaprio as an actor so I tend to not really watch his movies. That being said.... this movie looks like something I'd like to watch. And I love how good Scorsese is at making awful people so compelling.

3:20 Bahahaha, you didn't have to do DiCaprio like that 😂😭😭

This movie made me cry every time I watched it and I rewatched it like ten times

Great video!

19:37 “unlikable female protagonist” How!? Mollie was a great character!