I forgot about your review post Mriana, I’ll get back to that. But, as I was pulling into the driveway last night, I caught this;
I had a lot of questions after the movie, like, exactly how this system works, where Osage people got checks for their land rights with the oil. They aren’t shown involved in the work of getting the oil, they just get money. The white people run the government, local and national, so it’s a setup for what happened, then, as the opening scene tells you, the murders were not investigated.
The movie then shows DiCaprio as the broken soldier who falls into this situation but eventually becomes the hero/whistle-blower. So instead of the Osage story, we get a normal Western, with a slight twist of a bunch of white villains. There are a few redeeming scenes, and telling the story at all is important, but it could have been done better.
At the end of this interview, a question is raised if the whole movie industry to broken, and not fixable.