Killers of the Flower Moon (Spoilers)

I thought it was a pretty good movie.

But for a movie 3 hours long, they sure did make some odd changes.

The most impactful part of the book is that Ernest Burkhesrt had planned for Molly and kids to spend the night at her sister’s the night they blew that house up and that gets fully left out of the movie.

This movie kinda falls apart if that’s actually depicted Ernest had meant to blow his family up but like that truly shows you how evil Ernest was. Hence why his son through his ashes off the side of a bridge in disgust.

I know it’s hinted at in the early montage but there are a couple of off hand comments, but I don’t think the movie does a great job of depicting how many murders were actually happening and that it was more than just the Hale game doing the killing

I think the big one missing was the guy who got killed on the train and was a major part of the investigation.

I also don’t think they really did the investigation justice. There were dozens of PIs and government men in the town doing investigations. That’s part of what made the book so fascinating. There were even counter PIs hired to mess with the investigations. We never really get a sense of scale or any of the undercover work that was happening. Or any of that.

I will say the main actress is fricking amazing. Now I think she’s too gullible to Ernest throughout the movie despite him being sketchy as shite and especially at the end but the actress did an amazing job.

I also didn’t like that Ernest saw Molly like 3 times post arrest. If I remember correctly she only saw him at the trial.

Overall good movie but I think it could have easily hit stronger some of the key points of interest from the book