#ReservationDogs star Devery Jacobs shared her opinion about #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon:
“Our pride for being Native, our languages, cultures, joy & love are way more interesting & humanizing than showing the horrors white men inflicted on us” https://t.co/TRBz0Mj4qK pic.twitter.com/b9huMS6ZTY
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 23, 2023
“Being Native, watching this movie was fucking hellfire,” Devery Jacobs said on her social media accounts.
“Imagine the worst atrocities committed against yr ancestors, then having to sit thru a movie explicitly filled w/ them, w/ the only respite being 30min long scenes of murderous white guys talking about/planning the killings,” Jacobs argued in a long social media thread.
“It must be noted that Lily Gladstone is an absolute legend and carried Mollie with tremendous grace,” Jacobs wrote. “All the incredible Indigenous actors were the only redeeming factors of this film. Give Lily her goddamn Oscar. But while all of the performances were strong, if you look proportionally, each of the Osage characters felt painfully underwritten, while the white men were given way more courtesy and depth.”
“I don’t feel that these very real [Indigenous] people were shown honor or dignity in the horrific portrayal of their deaths,” she continued. “Contrarily, I believe that by showing more murdered Native women on screen, it normalizes the violence committed against us and further dehumanizes our people.”
