was a brutal watch for many reasons. i was on a long ass flight, this movie is hella long, i couldn’t really hear the audio with Turkish airline headphones, and also the movie was hard to watch in general.
this movie was confusing. im not really sure who its for or what it was about. it sorta mixed in some interesting history about how native americans were treated/how settlers killed them/tried for the money in the early wild west. i think this is a mostly true story, or at least based on reality?
spoilers below
you repeatedly watch leo fuck up and be a piece of shit. like watching him slowly kill his wife by poisoning her was so difficult to sit with. at the same time, i did really believe he loved her? it doesn’t make sense. i still found myself wanting them to live happily ever after even though he killed her whole family basically.
deniro i genuinely thought was good for the first part of the movie and then i was like oh shit hes actually the worst. probably related to my viewing experience being shit.
nobody really cares about eachother in this movie and maybe thats why its so hard to watch. you want love or good or light to at least crack through the depressing but it barely does if at all.
the movie has some good elements — its a big budget film, and period pieces are always captivating a little bit with the novelty they gain from it.
mainly i just want better for leos wife and the osages in general.
if its not clear already i had high expectations and got let down. on paper it checks a lot of the boxes of a film id love but its just didn’t come through at all for me.
was a brutal watch for many reasons. i was on a long ass flight, this movie is hella long, i couldn’t really hear the audio with Turkish airline headphones, and also the movie was hard to watch in general.
this movie was confusing. im not really sure who its for or what it was about. it sorta mixed in some interesting history about how native americans were treated/how settlers killed them/tried for the money in the early wild west. i think this is a mostly true story, or at least based on reality?
spoilers below
you repeatedly watch leo fuck up and be a piece of shit. like watching him slowly kill his wife by poisoning her was so difficult to sit with. at the same time, i did really believe he loved her? it doesn’t make sense. i still found myself wanting them to live happily ever after even though he killed her whole family basically.
deniro i genuinely thought was good for the first part of the movie and then i was like oh shit hes actually the worst. probably related to my viewing experience being shit.
nobody really cares about eachother in this movie and maybe thats why its so hard to watch. you want love or good or light to at least crack through the depressing but it barely does if at all.
the movie has some good elements — its a big budget film, and period pieces are always captivating a little bit with the novelty they gain from it.
mainly i just want better for leos wife and the osages in general.
if its not clear already i had high expectations and got let down. on paper it checks a lot of the boxes of a film id love but its just didn’t come through at all for me.
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