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Reservation Dogs actress Devery Jacobs vocalizes her concerns regarding the portrayal of violence against indigenous people in Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon.
In a series of tweets, Jacobs, who is Kanien’keha:ka, describes the movie, which depicts the Osage murders, as “painful, grueling, unrelenting, and unnecessarily graphic.” She describes watching the film as “fucking hellfire.”
“Imagine the worst atrocities committed against [your] ancestors, then having to sit thru a movie explicitly filled [with] them, [with] the only respite being 30min long scenes of murderous white guys talking about/planning the killings,” she tweeted.
In her tweets, she critiques Scorsese’s portrayal of the atrocity. Based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann, the film centers on the Osage people of Oklahoma and the white settlers who targeted them for their wealth. The film stars Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Lily Gladstone, whose performance Jacobs praised for her portrayal of Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman.
“While all of the performances were strong, the Osage characters felt painfully underwritten compared to the white men who were given more depth and focus,” she wrote.
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