Martin Scorsese adapts best-selling nonfiction book about a series of 1920s murders known as 'The Reign of Terror.'
" He constructed it as a true crime whodunit interweaving the Osage murders as symbolic of America's relationship with Native Americans with a look at how the fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigations handled the case.
Scorsese also chooses to reveal almost immediately that Ernest and his uncle William Hale are the murderous villains of the story. On a certain level, that hurts the tension of the film since we know who is behind the plot to kill Mollie and her family from almost the beginning. It is also problematic because we clearly see who is evil and it makes it difficult to understand how Mollie and others can be so blind.
Scorsese also chooses an odd ending for his film. He closes with a radio play depicting the murders and the FBI's investigation of the case. Scorsese obviously takes delight in portraying the details of a live radio play, but the humor of it seems to trivialize the horrors we have been witnessed. I understand that his point is how America trivialized the murders.
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