On the Osage reservation, Oklahoma in 1920s, members of the Osage community are being found dead from suspicious suicidal wounds, poisonings, or just disappearing altogether. Based on the bestselling novel of the same title by David Grann, watch the horrific circumstances in which the FBI was founded. Leo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro (both muses and long-time Scorsese film actors) play Ernest Burkhart and William Hale, some of the few white men in the area. The scenes between these two really are something special. When Leo marries Molly, an Osage woman who has a lot of wealth from oil, he starts to see firsthand what tragedy looks like. This is one of the longer movies I’ve seen that I’ve felt the length. It’s a very slow burn and extremely detailed. I won’t sugarcoat it, this is not a happy movie, it’s actually quite depressing but really well done. There are only a few “cover eyes cause that’s gross” scenes but other than that it feels like a play. I’m putting it in the same category as Schindler’s List and other historically accurate movies that are hard to watch but important to see at least once. The Osage nation helped Scorsese with the production of this film to help encapsulate the pain and trauma that this time period meant to their history. Can’t say it beats The Departed in my mind as the best Scorsese movie but it’s close.
Rating: 4.5/5
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