Tiffany Gates

Don’t do it. Well, do it when you can get it for free. Maybe. It’s excessively long and not in a way that lends itself to the story. I am getting the feeling this was billed as “Leonardo DiCaprio’s finest performance of his entire career” in order to get people to go see it. I also get the feeling a LOT of awards are going to come from this simply from the content of the story. There are just so many problems with it. It has difficult and confusing timelines and scenes that feel like they are misplaced. Leo seems like such a dim witted puppet that I wonder if the true story this is based on-whether that is accurate? I’d like to know if this person was truly that ignorant, of literally everything. Lilly Gladstone was the most interesting character by far, although also-seems way too naive and such a victim for the time period. Like seriously? By the 20’s you didn’t know white people would do despicable things to you?! Also, absolutely no chemistry between Leo and Lilly. I often didn’t buy either one of them even cared about the other. Also-the screen time for Brendan Fraser and John Lithgow?! Laughable. Again seems misplaced, unnecessary and only in the movie so it would be a “star studded” cast to get people to see it. And-there were parts of this movie that were genuinely intended to be funny. Only the white guilt plagued by the theater I was in left myself and my husband the only ones laughing. One more thing-to the makeup artist: we can totally see the glob of whatever stuck to Leo’s nose in a feeble attempt to make him more “rustic” for a period film. It was kind of funny actually. Trying to disguise him? Really just looked like large bad dentures and someone punched him in the nose… This film seemed more like a desperate attempt to just show that Martin S. “can”. Financially, connectedness, and age wise. DiCaprio films with better acting and could fit within best of his career: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Wolf of Wall Street. Just to give you a gauge on the “best acting of his whole career” claim. And as others have lamented-this film had potential. It had the potential to show the tragedy from the Osage point of view. Instead they took a bunch of rich white dudes and showed it from their perspective. Not cool when it’s a “story that NEEDED to be told”. Instead the Osage characters were almost secondary and made to seem too naive.