Digital Editor of The Yorkshire Post Jon Pritchard gives a two-minute review of Killers of the Flower Moon, the latest film featuring Robert de Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, directed by Martin Scorcese.
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00:00 Hi, my name's John Pritchard, I'm the digital editor for the Yorkshire Post and today I'm
00:05 going to be talking to you about Killers of the Flower Moon, the latest film directed
00:09 by Martin Scorsese, featuring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:15 The film is centred around the Osage Nation in Oklahoma in the 1910s, 20s and 30s in America.
00:23 The Osage Nation is an American Indian tribe which lives upon oil-rich fields and therefore
00:28 has a number of extremely wealthy families. Several American men return from the First
00:33 World War and travel there to get jobs in the oil industry, however some marry into
00:38 the Osage families in a bid to get a hold of their money. The manipulative De Niro is
00:43 a kingpin in the area and regularly has people call him king, and hatches a plan to use his
00:49 simpleton nephew, played by DiCaprio, to direct the huge wealth of one Osage family towards
00:55 himself. Although the film is quite long, clocking in at almost 3 and a half hours,
01:00 it doesn't drag too much and I would definitely recommend giving it a watch. You become incredibly
01:05 invested in the characters and in particular the trials and tribulations of DiCaprio's
01:10 character called Ernest, and he's constantly trying to take care and look after his wife
01:16 while keeping his powerful uncle happy. The length of the film allows the emotion and
01:21 the anger, the deception which is played out by De Niro, to be turned up to 11, and you
01:26 watch the increasingly ailing wife of Ernest, played by the outstanding Lily Gladstone,
01:31 to have her tradition and her rights snatched from her. The film involves an ensemble cast
01:38 including the ever brilliant Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser, particularly
01:43 as the newly created FBI get involved in the murders and the net begins to close on the
01:48 perpetrators of the killings. Overall I'd say this is an incredibly well acted and well
01:53 directed film which is worth watching, even taking into account the long running time.
01:59 Bye.