How Killers of the Flower Moon Lies - Let Me Explain (2023)

listen so this is that movie that ends people coming out and admitting they're 1% Cherokee it's easily one of the most brutal retellings of a dark part of History that's based on a book of the same name focusing on The Killers who were trying to wipe out the old sage who at one point were the richest people on Earth and while I think it's worth going out to the theater to go see it I'm going to be honest it's 3 hours and a half and you're going to feel it if you're not in a recliner well well well what took you so long to get here so unless you're getting a cath with your large drink and popcorn know that it should be out on Apple TV soon so whatever way you watch it I just think it's worth watching cuz it's easily one of the best of the year so with full spoilers let me explain I said well I think the audience is ahead of us they know it's not a who done it who it's who didn't do it so the movie center around the oage people who were pretty much pushed away from their own lands down to this corner in Oklahoma that was meant to be all rocks in order to screw them over but then they ended up finding oil making them Super Rich meaning that all the people who kicked them out out before they wanted it back So eventually there would be blood when this money start coming we should have known it came with something else the movie then follows this guy named Ernest who arrives in town to get a job but you notice immediately how dumb he is like when he LS this man joins a fight for no reason even though he didn't plan on Landing a punch he's returning from a war where they said he was too stupid to even be out on the battlefield and I know that people like Suave DiCaprio and they love when he's being very Charming but I just think he's great when he's playing idiot money flows freely here now I do love that money sir like people will tell this man directly what the plan is and it takes him the whole movie's runtime to figure out what's going on this man's given a book but he can't read the whole 3 hours he's moping around with this Emoji ass frown like he's impersonating young dairo and M right you keep your face like that it's going to get stuck son I got a question you like women that's my weakness the main reason he moves into town is because of how rich his uncle hail is and this man has so much power that he makes his relatives call him King hail has appointed himself as the sheriff and even calls himself Reverend without even being one and everyone in town pretty much looks up to him because they've known him since they were kids and he's given them so much and that kind of makes him the sneakiest one out of all of them cuz even when the murders start happening he's the one collecting evidence and putting out the reward if anyone knows anything about it you must come to me because Ernest has a hernia from the war his uncle decides to put him up as a cabbie so that he can pick up a certain woman and that's where he picks up Lily Gladstone's Molly who gives him a crash course on their town why did you come here for my uncle I work with him because he's an idiot he ends up becoming a robber as a side hustle who's always losing all of his money and gambling interestingly enough to a queen of diamonds so his uncle starts teaching him how to steal money the legal way throughout the movie he's always being called a snake or a coyote so it's kind of crazy to think that he went from being The Wolf of Wall Street to The Wolf of the countryside where he's killing off the flower moons like the opening line of the book says so so many hungry wolves after being a dedicated lift driver she ends up vibing with him and even buys him a hat as she lets him into her house like a vampire where he slowly starts to suck the life away from her and it's insane to think that at one point you know I'm sure that Lily was Charmed by DiCaprio and it it must have been really cool to have a kissing scene with him and a Titanic like car and then it turns out this man looks like this like talk about acting give this woman the gold now coyote wants money that money is real nice they eventually get married where he's looking like Redenbacher and it has not been this painful seeing a man love his wife since chance dropped the big day cuz this is where all the trouble begins we mix these families together and that estate money flows the right direction it'll come to us so the evil plan at play is that Uncle hail like many people have been getting the settlers to marry into the oage family so that they can then kill them and have the rights to all their oil money but while he has his little ring going on there are also other people out there like Bill who are doing the same thing Bill's married to Molly's sister Minnie who ends up getting really sick and eventually dying meaning that bill ends up with all the head rights and there's even a moment earlier when hail had a one-on-one with his wife and is even speaking in her language and it's a mix between him pretending to care about her but really caring about her not dying on his dime because he's losing a piece of the pie to Bill and that's sick even worse is that bill immediately moves on to the next sister when Minnie passes sicker my wife he likes her nice thing so how as much as you do the next sister who's targeted is Anna who carries a gun in her purse and that's why hail keeps spreading this idea that that's what's going to get her killed but it's an interesting performance because Anna spends more time around town than all of the sisters and she ends up with a different accent than them because she's almost like imitating a classic Hollywood actress and that's even included in her wardrobe because they start seeing their traditional clothes as something that could cause trouble so she's traded hers in for a mink scarf this blanket is a Target on our backs on a rewatch a crazy thing that I noticed was that on the day of her sister Minnie's death you can see hail giving her a flask while she's mourning pretty much encouraging her to drink I really wanted the alcoholism to root from the pain of losing her sister the fact that her family meant everything to her and losing her best friend Minnie it devastated her and so I asked scorsi before we even started filming I want this alcoholism to come from the pain of losing mini so can we have hail hand her a flask at the funeral and he loved the idea and that was the first scene that we shot on the day of her murder we see a big fight happen in Molly's house where clearly Anna wants Byron ernest's brother who's pretty much hail's right-hand man but unlike Ernest hail could never get Byron to marry in that man would rather date a servant than be her man so after getting slapped by Anna in front of his parents Byron creepily says he's going to take her home to nnest and of course this dude just stares out into space Byron also mentions the death of a man named Charlie who gets shot but isn't found to like way later and in researching him it turns out that his wife was the one who put a hit on him alongside the dude she was planning on marrying and both got off Scot free trying to get rid of me aren't you snake Anna's eventually found shot by the river where the doctors decided to do an allout autopsy right in front of everybody and when you realize that the reason they're doing that is because the doctors were on hail's payroll and were cutting up her brain in order to find the bullet you just get a knot in your stomach plus they even mentioned that Anna was pregnant and hail first thought is to ask if they thought he was the baby daddy like how much bootlegging was this man doing their time is over at the funeral home Ernest argues with the director who's trying to overcharge him for what he calls oage prices cuz everyone in town hates that they're Filthy Rich and don't have to work which is why they're marrying and killing them so they don't have to work and even when they're planning the burial one of the funeral guys mentions how much money Anna left behind and pitches them using it for a town party the nerve of these people I ain't got no nerves none at all that's when m hires a private investigator which was really risky back then cuz a lot of them would like collect evidence and then conceal it or they would go solve the case and then head out and find that guilty party and if that guilty party can pay more money they dip in this case hail gets the brothers to go Whack Him but if you zoom in you notice that it's actually Byron with the weapon cuz again like the fight in the beginning and in the Army Ernest is just a minion at this point Bill also has his own investigation going on for Anna cuz he knows that he's next and he's trying to be the last one to the Finish Line I didn't realize this wasn't the movie continues to show how bad Ernest is because if you listen closely he tells the funeral director to leave the jewelry on Anna's body cuz eventually his henchman Blackie shows up as a Gravedigger and snatches it all on top of that he's so greedy that he sets up a side deal with Blackie to steal his car so that he can claim the insurance on it you know kind of learning from his uncle's ways I just love mnny I love it as much as I love my wife but of course Blackie gets caught and arrested since H was looking to use Blackie for a hit job he takes his nephew to the super secret room and spanks him so hard he breaks the paddle but they ended up revealing that Leo was padded so meth in my ass now this was an interesting scene because one that Taylor Swift movie was playing next door and I kid you not she was singing look what you made me do as Hill was spank in Earnest but it also is a scene where we learned a lot about Hill and how he's a 32nd degree Mason which is why he's in that Twin Peaks like room cuz nobody has scarier Secrets than they do but it explains a lot about why he's doing what he's doing because he's seeking out the highest rank of being a 33rd degree Mason in where you have to be honored fully by your community so this man buying up dance studios and being in every picture with everything that he's giving the town it's not really because he cares it's because he's one degree away from what he really wants and that's why even when he meets up with his bootleg buddy grammar that guy rubs his Awards in his face by saying yeah it's better than gold it's recognition whose land is this m ask the next Target hail has his eyes on is Henry who was actually married to Molly before but now that he's found out that his wife is cheating on him with the town budger Henry's going through depression and wants to take his own life and the only reason hail doesn't stop him is because this man has a $25,000 insurance policy on Henry and you see him even signing it earlier after a church scene it's $25,000 laying there after that the mother passes with it being heavily implied that she was getting poisoned and that's something hails seemed to have gotten from erest when he arrived at the beginning because Ernest mentioned that during the war he saw more people die from sickness than from bullets my mother Lizzy he's not good sh she won't last it was also very poetic the way that they showed the AL as a warning of death and having the ancestors be the ones who the mom walked away with and I just know that if an indigenous director would have done it sadly most people wouldn't have bought tickets after gaslighting Molly at dinner she reveals that she's pregnant and they end up naming the child Anna the same way that Anna was going to name hers Minnie but the news pisses off the uncle who then baits erest by telling him that Henry was Molly's ex which he had no idea about leading Ernest to hire an assassin named John Ramsay who doesn't even want to do it until he learns it's an Indian and then he thinks that's different he just forgets to set it up as a suicide it's so simple the front is the front the back is the back he has to make it look like hail tries to convince the deli guy who was cheating with Henry's wife to run away in order to make it look like he's guilty and that's when you really see what the movie does best it's showing you how The Killers get away and set up people and one of the things I missed the first time around was that he always had an alibi whenever a murder was going to happen like they take the time to show you how hail would go into town to take a picture or head out to Fort Worth where he would also have witnesses and take a picture so it wouldn't come back to him all while this man was looking like the Hamburglar Ernest and Molly end up moving to the suburbs where the whole Community has put up lights in the front yards in order to keep the murders away and in the book this actually pisses off The Outsiders cuz they saw it as them flexing their oil money with how much electricity they were using that's when Ernest threatens bill for beating him at his own game and that's what leads to them blowing up their house killing Bill and Molly's sister Rita and what's crazy is that in the movie and in the book they mention how Molly and her kids were literally just over there before that happened when they come in you get them this also leads to Molly's cry in the basement that is just gutting and is one of the standout scenes of the movie and it's also when the movie's look changes since they've had all the oldage shops shot on film the settlers are meant to look like old photographs but after this explosion you can see the whole movie get darker and desaturated even though Molly starts getting sick because of her diabetes she ends up making the trk up to DC where they pay $20,000 to the government just to listen to their story please send help there's murder and oage the police do nothing this causes ha to get even more worried and since he has the doctors in his pockets he gets them to alter mol's insulin shots by adding poison to every injection but since Molly doesn't trust them Ernest ends up being the one doing it making this relationship sicker than Phantom threat I love this girl do you now Hil knew that ernest's soft spot was Molly so earlier when her sister mini died he'll really push that idea of Bill failing to take care of her and not giving her the right medications making Ernest feel like he needs to do everything he can to not feel like Bill did shows itself to you that Bill Smith didn't take the proper care of many the way he could have but have her say and die take her head rats and the land and I know that this is probably the most questioned part of the story and I've seen people really divided by it and the book doesn't reveal whether he knew or not but it isn't until Ernest starts Downing uncle that he tries half of that vial himself and ends up getting sicker than a dog which to me shows he didn't know but yes in the age of the internet this man should have burned in Hell on a rewatch you realize how sick they really are though because there's an early scene where hail jokes about killing the Indians in front of the doctors when they're looking at Henry and the doctor doesn't turn around cuz he's offended didn't hearing that no he turns around cuz he's shocked he's saying the plan out loud going to kill this Indian how'd you [Applause] know the movie also shows real footage from the Tulsa Massacre that they're making a comparison to since that happened a few hours away from them since they're both in Oklahoma so you do end up with Whiplash when you know casually the KKK is just marching in the town parade alongside the oage but what's worse is noticing that Molly's Guardian who controlled her money was also the guy leading the clan even worse this same dude is later on in the court I'm the jury they're very hungry for power they ain't going to get it what's crazy is that hail didn't even like the clan cuz they were too conservative for him like he's pretty much the racist liberal this man was learning their language just to screw them over he would boast about bringing them into the 20th century like they owed him something not realizing that all the fancy medicines he was touting they were only needed cuz they also brought in the diseases they were sick people they were kindly people big-hearted people but they're sickly a lot of the fraud they did was also not even illegal like it was part of the law this was a town of 5,000 people yet they had 75 attorneys you know they would consider it federal land one day and Indian land the other day whenever they needed it to be and they really had these rich oage people calling themselves incompetent because they ended up running all the banks for them and all the old sage had to ask for their own money like can you imagine inviting someone to your land and they end up controlling all of your Essentials and then slowly kick you out that's insane back in the old days they would miss the Indian point of view in a movie by a mile right now they're missing it by feet honestly when you really look at it they weren't just looking to kill them but to completely end the editions so you know with all that Marvel talk scorsi was really coming out with this movie saying wakon to forever I was uh sent down from Washington DC to see about these murders see you what about them see who's doing it Jesse plens eventually arrives as a Texas Ranger in the ninth inning and he's representing the FBI that barely is getting put together by Jay Edgar hooer someone who Leo played in a movie before and in the original story it focused more on this char character solving the case and it kind of was playing it off like a detective Thriller but they rewrote the movie since they felt that twist was going to be too obvious plus you people found this version insensitive imagine telling a story where It All Leads up to a Scooby-Doo villain reveal at the end so when people say that they wanted it to be more like the book ask them if they read the book hell even makes fun of how long it took them to get there since clearly it wasn't all about the O AG dying but bail being detonated that got them there we were sitting down going through some of the court documents and the testimonies from this and people were talk talking about the house blowing up and in the documents from this and the court transcripts they only talked about Bill Smith the character played by Jason isbel there was no mention of Rita hail starts to tie up all the Loose Ends by pulling a Looper he sets up blackey to get arrested again with a bank robbery he sets up AC who they hired to blow up the house to rob a dance studio after letting the owner of the dance studio noce shoot him and even his buddy gramar gets killed but we just see him crash in a car after someone was chasing him which is kind of my thing you know if you're going to show all the violence on the oage multiple times don't don't hold back on the violence for The Killers we have so many deaths we've lost count after several roadblocks the FBI starts piecing things together as they have an undercover native getting some insights who I see a whole movie of and another guy who was previously an insurance agent undercover as an insurance agent who realizes all of the fraud that hail is pulling since he's recently burned down his own Farm if you pay close attention you can see that at the beginning of the movie this man has a whole bunch of battle but by the end hail only has a small Corral which is why he's pulling Insurance fire fraud and this agent is also probably the reason why hail had issues cashing in on that insurance for Henry I'm going to tell you who did it plus the only reason they got a lead was cuz this old guy told the truth only cuz he was about to die you got to just you got to tell me what you told them all of it what you tell I told them all of all of it they end up arresting Ernest and interrogate him with Blackie as they keep him locked up for about 2 months and because of that there's a scene where the uncle goes to visit Molly which he questions if it's real or not and I think he was there poisoning her since you know Ernest has been gone and it isn't until hail gets arrested that the authorities finally are able to take Molly to the hospital and she gets better are you a married man yes sir if your wife died who would get her money we then get a couple of late appearances from John lithco as a prosecutor who came in like ca and Oppenheimer and 3 hours in we then get the court scene where Ernest has to testify and Brendan Fraser comes in looking like a wrecking ball I know people have been making memes of him which honestly are all hilarious but calling out his performance would also be calling out Marty's Direction and Caston all right you know it's clearly done on purpose he's supposed to be the big town lawyer who's from out of state meaning that he has this goofy city boy way of speaking just like Anna spoke differently than her sisters I think he's supposed to come off over the top because that's exactly how all the people in the room see him these government man they're giving you the road to hang yourself so after holding Earnest for 2 months in order to testify hail's Dream Team is able to stop him by stepping in on his lawyer and really having this man say on the advice of councel I respectfully declin to answer that question on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me now the wol scene in my opinion is one of the most important since Marty went on record saying that everyone was implicated like there will be scary parts where they'll show scenes in the movie that seem to not go anywhere but it's because those were real transcripts real lines that people said who were never caught including Bill ha's wife telling the doctor to get furnit out of the house what's that about you know and by the way this is based on actual things they were they were they were told to get good stuff out of the house this scene shows how many people were in on it including the Big Oil CEOs who all look the other way when Henry's getting set up they show you Oil Workers who legit were staring at him for days but also look the other way and I think it shows the worst part of how everyone was involved they just stayed silent because the bad guy isn't always going to be this mustache twirling Disney villain people say well that type of person that that sort I guess what that means is that they try to distance themselves from them it's someone else it's not me but in actuality I feel it's not someone else it's it's us it's you and me and maybe if we had been born under different circumstances maybe we would have wound up doing exactly the same things that's why the title is so important we already know who did it the movie's breaking down how they did it and how people continue to get away with stuff like this several movies have covered this but I think it's caused a lot of confusion because a lot of people don't realize that being the main character doesn't mean they're a good character too literal too violent too metaphorical too dark here we have the protagonist but where's the antagonist huh where's the drama studios are now putting out disclaimers or warnings at the beginning of their movies cuz a lot of people seem to not get it like even recently I've noticing people figure out that a lot of scor's movies were actually calling out the bad guys they just put you so into their evil minds that people took it the wrong way and I want you to understand we don't do anything illegal and now they got this man doing explainers in his interviews as we we know now tragically it's a norm every other person is like Travis pickle now the sad truth is that it usually ends up being violence that gets people to tune in and not the positive stories you know it's like it's not an Oscar worthy performance unless they're going through Agony you know it's crazy to see a lot of people who were complaining about this movie not being able to name another indigenous movie that came out this year but if a movie has people complaining that the bad guys are too bad or also the bad guys are too good usually that means it hits the market portraying the sad but Raw truth not something that leans the way that'll make people more comfortable can you find the wolves in this picture get it the motion picture they end up testifying in Anna's death and it's just scary how chill they are retelling it they even show a flashback to how Molly Danier tucked Byron in after coming back home from killing her sister and when they show this Kelsey guy I damn near vomited this man looks like if Walter junr broke bad and was running an illegal whiskey out that was poisoning people he's a dude early on when Ernest meets Molly who boasts about having a full-blooded wife like a creeper he dances at their wedding with his goofy line dancing when it should have been their traditional music playing and then of course he's the sicker who planned to adopt two oage kids as long as he could then kill them and get their head rights legally it's real complicated sometimes you got to do one thing even though you mean to do another thing but I'm not in any kind of trouble at all none at all after Ernest is forced to sign a paper so hail can get his rights and learning that his uncle even had a hit out on him it's the death of his baby that makes him realize how his uncle has been using him like there's a lick edit when he meets Molly where it cuts to the sister's photographs and then punches in and I took that as him already kind of knowing who they were since the uncle must have given him a photograph like even when the uncle realizes that they finally met he gives the brother a side eye hell even gives Ernest a book about wolves in order to incept in his mind that dog mentality and the way he wants the order of things through one lens you see a very organic attraction forming and through another lens that Molly is pretty unaware of you see a calculated um Arrangement happening and when Ernest is on the stand he's asked if his uncle directed him into marrying his wife and Leo's face is crazy it's as if he realized right then and there that as much as he thought he loved her in his vile disgusting way he was also being duped the whole time by his uncle as the book States and he even see a Molly's face who questions him right after about the shots just for him to deny it like a coward have you told all the truths in the end the movie tells you that Ernest and his brother did end up going to jail but were eventually let out pretty early living out the rest of their days in a trailer park together hail ended up getting served with a lifetime sentence but then also got out early dying in a nursing home with many oage even forgiving him because as hail put it people forget yeah they don't care I've heard there were some oage that were at his funeral that's right yeah believed until the day he died and after that he was their friend that he wasn't guilty of what he was charged of as for Molly they mentioned that she remarried and had grandchildren eventually passing at age 51 where they buried her next to her sisters and her daughter and just one really striking detail I found in an archive about Molly in 1934 just two years before she died of natural causes um I found a document saying where she had appealed her incompetency and she was deemed competent she was finally granted the rights of a full-fledged citizens to have access to her money and her resources all of this is told after a time Jump where a radio show was retelling this case they've got Jack White up there as the host and reading up on it it turns out that the FBI was the one funding these because they would use the files that they had on all these crimes and investigations and then sell tickets for the show that would make the FBI look pretty good obviously it also sounds a a lot like the True Crime craze and live podcast that turn all the Glorious stories into entertainment and they even go at the awkward sponsors by having it be promoted by Lucky Strike and adding a line in the reading where Ernest asked for a lucky strike after getting out for the murders sound like shortly thereafter Gerald Bobkins swung mercilessly at his wife's head with a golf club she was never seen [Music] again this episode is sponsored by Sports Zone upgrade your game with topof the line golf the last person to come out and read is cores who made a tiny Cameo earlier when Molly goes to DC and they take a picture but here it's fully breaking the fourth wall as all the music and sound effects stop and it's clear that this is him being really meta on storytelling especially with him being an outsider and how he wants to use his reach to get the story out there in order to get people talking I think he got people talking if it didn't upset people there's something wrong something wrong with I think it's more than Marty being a martyr but saying that this isn't the only one project that's going to be out there on the story There Will and should be more he's just speaking to his audience hoping they listen he's exploiting the story and he's just another nonos AG who's reaping the benefits of the story for his own purposes how do you respond to that well I hope not those comments that the oage should have wrote this book um you know we had there was a plenty of opportunity for someone to write that book but no one did and so I can't imagine why they would say something you know the movie then ends with a shot of the surviving oage people chanting in the fields where the flowers used to be making up the collar as they dance around the drum set fading to the credits where the audience then sits in the rain reminiscing just like Molly said earlier in the moon storm it's uh well it's powerful so we need to be quiet for a while it's good for the crops that's for sure just be still

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Length: 26min 8sec (1568 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 01 2023