There are more minor shifts in perspectives throughout Killers, a soulful and unsettling movie that is self-aware about how storytellers twist and manipulate truth. Now playing the latter, DiCaprio takes on one of his most complicated roles as a snivelling husband trying to strike the right balance between loving his wife and making a beeline toward her wealth. The movie's dramatic shift in focus and perspective turns toward Mollie Burkhart, played as both reservedly fierce and sweetly tender by the incredible Lily Gladstone, and her husband, Ernest. "It's a 'who didn't do it?'" White, now played by Jesse Plemons, and the newly formed Federal Bureau of Investigation, don't arrive in Killers of the Flower Moon until the two-hour mark, long after the Osage Nation make pleas to Washington for help. "It's not a whodunnit," Scorsese told the audience at a Cannes news conference, explaining his decision to overhaul the script after consulting with members of Osage Nation. And just like today, this Indigenous community had a hard time in the 1920s convincing the law to do anything about the harm being done to them. The members of the Osage Nation on the other hand knew that they were being systemically and brutally murdered for their claim to land by pretty much every white settler flocking in their direction. For a white saviour figure like White, the murders, orchestrated by the interlopers marrying into Osage birthrights, was a puzzle to be solved. But the extent to which these murders were a mystery depends on whose lens we're seeing them through, and who is telling the story. Leonardo DiCaprio was signed up to star as Tom White, the Texas Ranger turned FBI officer who steps off a train in Oklahoma to solve the mystery surrounding murdered Osage Nation members. Martin Scorsese's adaptation of David Grann's non-fiction book, which premiered this past weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, was initially scripted as a true crime Western. You can imagine the movie Killers of the Flower Moon was supposed to be.
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