Killers of the Flower Moon – Budget of $200 million – 3 hours and 26 minutes
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Ernest Burkhart returns from World War I to his Uncle William’s cattle ranch. William King Hale, called King, offers Ernest a job running a cab but suggests there is more than one way to make money. The Osage people found oil on their land and had the final say on who could drill for a monthly payment. While they have wealth, the government won’t let them access the money without a white guardian. And that guardian can be a spouse. King asks Ernest if he is attracted to non-white women. Ernest admits he likes women of any color if they are round. He gives Ernest a book about the Osage nation and tells him to keep quiet around them. Or they will label him a ‘blackbird chirping.’
Ernest sees Mollie leave a store and offers her a ride. She accepts but doesn’t take his proffered hand. Mollie and Ernest fall in love after several rides. She invites him in for dinner with her mother, Lizzie. Ernest tells King he wants to marry Mollie, and King tells him about headrights. Ernest can live off her monthly payments and inherit them if Mollie dies. Since the Osage women rarely live past 50, Ernest will collect soon.
Mollie lives with her mother and looks after her sisters, Anna, Rita, and Minnie. Annie loves to drink and party while keeping a pistol in her purse. Minnie is married to Bill Smith, but she has a wasting disease. She grows more tired every day and isn’t getting better. When Minnie’s disease takes life, Mollie questions it. Over the years, Mollie notes uninvestigated murders throughout the Osage nation. And she blames the strange new faces around her for the deaths. Her blame doesn’t shift when Minnie dies. Bill asks Ernest to leave their home during Minnie’s wake. King sits on the porch and tells Ernest that it’s a shame that Minnie’s money will go to Bill, not Minnie’s surviving family. Under the right circumstances, all the family’s wealth could be Mollie’s. And in turn, Ernest’s. Mollie begins to question the numerous deaths in her family and her people. She offers a reward and hires an investigator after someone murders Anna. King sits in the circle and adds $1,000 to Mollie’s reward. Mollie’s efforts will help create the modern-day FBI and uncover corruption, greed, and evil hidden within their nation.
Based on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, this movie is tragically breathtaking (FTC Affiliate Disclaimer). It respects the Osage Nation by correctly using the nation’s language, writing, and traditions. The director did not hold back on the brutality of the killings. He wanted viewers to know that the remorseless culprit spared no one in their heinous acts. The clothing, technology, and conclusion were within the era. However, the film jumps around the timeline without any explanation. Within 5 minutes, Mollie and Ernest marry and have a child, and that child is 5 with siblings. The audience doesn’t get a timeline or monologue to keep up. The plot doesn’t use its 3-hour plus running time to include more about Osage’s formation of the oil deal with the government, how the guardianship deal started, and if it ever ended. This film will begin a deeper conversation about history, heritage, genocide, and greed.
I give it 4.5 out of 5 stars
You want protection – Agent Thomas
I could be real – King
You talk too much – Mollie
Insulin – Ernest
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