I just don’t think you understood at all the intent Martin had with concluding the movie. And you did a bit of posturing. So I’m making fun

He said I am having an opinion on a movie in a movie forum how DARE you have an opinion on my opinion lmao go write a blog then

If saying that a brief pre-credit montage of current stats to connect the story to current state of MMIW means I’m posturing / not understanding Martin’s vision… then okay

Deniro was frightening and Scorsese just keeps getting better with age.

When Hale took Ernest to the Masonic lodge

No— it seems you don’t understand the ending bc Marty specifically extends the time period a few decades and the final words of the obituary perfectly sums up the way Native’s issues are swept under the rug.

The film never tried to inform on anything past the story that was told. It was small snippet of a larger issue and the lack of deliberately acknowledging that was intentional. He could’ve very well made a more informative movie, he didn’t.

And the posturing came with your reply to me giving me a bio of your attachment to the issue.

Reflecting on the ending of the film and wishing it would’ve taken a slightly different approach =/= not understanding the approach that it did take.

I spoke on how widespread of a problem the lack of education around MMIW is because you had this attitude of “well that’s dumb, everybody knows racism is a problem it’s not this movies job to confront that”.

Anyway, I think this conversation has run it’s course. You love the ending, that’s fine. It was a good ending. I liked the ending well enough, just would’ve loved seeing a precredit of some very brief connection to modern landscape which you’ve made very clear you think would be absolutely ridiculous and completely demolish the thesis of the film lmao

I would’ve thought it ran it’s course for you when you called me a moron. Carry on

Blud can’t even read the replies I gave him. Definitely said it wouldn’t have missed the mark had he chosen to do a more informative ending. But I “made it very clear” of the opposite? You’re a god damn bozo and no wonder you couldn’t comprehend this art piece

mans had Cheech and Chong in After Hours lol

wonder if he wrote the "you talk too much" line in the film for that

Been kinda sick gf watched it without me f*** that b**** … got my ticket for tomorrow night

phenomenal movie

I think they’re trying to put it out, by essentially digging a trench around it so the fire can’t spread out towards the rest of the field.

Scorsese did it again. Another f***ing masterpiece.

This got me f***ed up man feeling empty rn

Incredible movie

He was so good in Aviator

Honestly dying to see this again already but I’ll probably wait till its out on streaming

I should try to get my girl to watch this even though she told me she won't make three and a half hours in the cinema

wish movies still did intermissions tbh

The reason I think the ending is such an important point to the viewers.

I think Scorsese wanted us to see/feel/understand no matter how well-produced/directed movies will always have a sort of artificialness unless its a primary source documentary type of media.

There is a specific reason why Scorsese did not dive deeper into the trauma Mollie felt, rather the only glimpse of it we got was those shots we got of pure horror on her face (Lily Gladstone killed it). He treated our relationship with her very very delicate, even though it was incredibly easy to sympathize with her situation, we never once got a glimpse into how she truly felt, especially towards the end, it only focused on Ernest's point of view.

I think Scorsese knows that he is not in a position to truly represent what the Osage people felt, and furthermore he realizes that no matter how much effort you put into filming, movies will always feel artificial, and there will always be a certain narrative pushed. When the play was over, Scorsese comes out on stage and confronts the audience directly, wanting to emphasize just how artificial it all is, because up to this point we have the privilege of treating it as just as a movie or a drama, but in reality this is real life, this actually happened.

Great one