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Film: Killers of the Flower Moon

With the underlying theme of: don't trust white people you would think this would be a hit with woke people. But guess what? They won't like it, people because there's no fucking way they can sit still for 3.5 hours. I loved parts of this movie - Leo standing there being interrogated was just a chef's kiss acting performance...and man the first hour...so incredible. DeNiro great. But the seams and stitching of this movie and story didn't quite add up. I remember reading this book awhile ago and thinking something similar -- the author didn't really have a sense of what actually happened or what the relationships were actually like. I don't think Scorsese did either. Because so much doesn't really track. Does she think her husband was involved with killing her sister or not? What would your reaction be to that? Trusting him? I dunno...maybe it was really weird times back then, but then the film doesn't capture that weirdness. Not saying it would be easy to...but still. And the movie does "The Oppenheimer" and goes into an hour long act 3 trial. My eyes were heavy at times. 

In the parking lot, two couples were animated talking about Taylor Swift and I realized one reason why the movies are dying. The great auteurs are not delivering to their audience the way Swift does. She delivers every time and her fans become her marketing machine. The auteurs still have their defenders, but you need to deliver to the fanboys in a way that aren't anymore. 

I hate to say it, but we need Harvey Weinstein...or some other movie whisperer who can provide the perspective of the world/audience. Because without this kind of collaborator, the auteurs go off the rails it seems to me...