One of Killers of the Flower Moon's final scenes includes a cameo that completely recontextualizes the film in a fascinating way.
The Big Picture There are few films you’ll see this year that end quite like writer-director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. After spending over three hours taking us through a sweeping historical epic about the true story of the mass murder of the Osage in the 1920s, the curtain gets pulled back in one of the most complicated yet audacious final statements the filmmaker has ever made.
Martin Scorsese Puts Himself Under the Spotlight in 'Killers of the Flower Moon' This wasn’t the first time the filmmaker had made his presence known in the film. Throughout, his voice would occasionally pop in. These were small moments, but they almost felt like that of a director guiding the story in little ways.
When we hear that Mollie died and her obituary does not even mention the murders, it is the filmmaker himself who steps up to read these final lines. He inserts himself into the play that we had just seen reducing and minimizing the harrowing realities of the story being told.
'Killers of the Flower Moon' Is Scorsese’s Most Interesting On-Screen Appearance Even as this isn’t the first time the filmmaker has popped up in one of his films. He showed up in one particularly unsettling scene in Taxi Driver that this could almost feel in conversation with, except that he isn’t playing a character in the story this time. There is nothing for him to hide behind as he is instead just himself.
Rather than feel like narrowing down to just leaving the audience with a moment to point at the screen in recognition as other films might, Scorsese lets the moment linger before bringing us into the present to show us the real people still living. They are not just a work of fiction he has created, but beings of flesh and blood with hopes and dreams of their own.
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