Well I stayed up late and watched in one long tedious 3 hour plus marathon.
Cant tell you how disappointed I was.
Hadn't registered de Niro had a lead role. He is such a ham actor, every role he is the same, mumbling away and apparently looking in a meaningful way.
And DiCaprio trying so hard to look like a slob.
I dont doubt the quality of the filming and staging of scenes but ...
I had understood this film was a breakthrough in that it had the lives and history of Indigenous Americans at the core. Far from being from their perspective it was centred on the white interlopers as though their manipulation and murders were more importatn.
I had assumed it would be centering the story of the lives of the Osage people from their perspective. It could so easily have been showing the changes in the way of life from the sudden increase in money, the arrival of the white community and the resulting exploitation and violence. And lack of any help from local authorities etc.
They were just shown as the "other" who had no self agency.
Very disappointed and disturbed that this film got praised as a breakthrough.
And as for that nonsense at the end of it suddenly being a radio play.
FFS - cant these man child directors every grow up and stop self referencing their boyhood obsessions. If it isn't Scorsese its that idiot Nolan who thinks people who complain about the noise and lost dialogue in his films are just stupid.
(I may have dozed through some of it.)