Evil surrounds my heart. Many times I cry and this evil around my heart comes out of my eyes. I close my heart and keep what is good there. But hate comes.
Love will not save you.
One of the first things we hear William "King" Hale say when we're introduced to him about the Osage, spoken softly and with a smile like almost everything he says, is, "They're a sickly people. They're a kind and beautiful people, but sickly."…
There's a scene where Betty and Rita go to a show, and the man explains that all of the sounds and music which appear live are actually just recordings. Then a woman comes out and starts singing this absolutely gorgeous song, and both of them start crying. The singer collapses, but the song keeps right on going as they carry her out. I've always found this scene especially haunting and beautiful, but I've never really understood why - like so…
There's a powerful story in here about the way tradition and familial bonds allow abusers to continue harming those closest to them, the damage caused by a culture of silence and forgiveness, and the necessity of speaking out no matter how uncomfortable it is for everyone involved - but the actual execution of said story left a bit to be desired.
I have never seen a family treat a widow so horribly; Jesus Christ.
Mom's thoughts: "It was dark."
The most important part of watching this movie is reminding yourself you wouldn't look as cool if you dressed like that. The temptation will come. You must let it pass over you. You are not him.
"Do you know why I did it?"
"Because you wanted to."
Francois Truffaut famously said that it's impossible to make an anti-war war movie, because the act of depicting it always inadvertently ends up glorifying it; that which is supposed to horrify, instead titillates. One begins to suspect that the same may be true of Ted Bundy films. And if the industry maintains its current trajectory, the latter sub-genre may soon become more numerous than the former.
This movie doesn't…
