Eddie Ginley to HE (email): “I was rewatching Wonder Boys the other night, and this scene….what Katie Holmes is saying, rather, reminded me of Killers of the Flower Moon.
“Michael Douglas (as Professor Grady Tripp) is looking for feedback on his manuscript and Katie brings up Douglas’ lesson that writing is about choices. By not making any choices, she contends, he basically gave up telling any kind of story, finding himself lost in superfluous details.
“To me, the similarities between Douglas’ character and Martin Scorsese are clear.
“Scorsese used to know all about making choices — big, bold, confident choices that spoke to how he saw the world and what he wanted to say.
“Not so much with Killers of the Flower Moon. Is it a tragic love story? Is it a socially-conscious film about a racial injustice? Is it a gangster film? Is it an Osage Nation lament?
“Well, it’s everything and nothing, isn’t it?”