This article containsKillers of the Flower Moonspoilers.
Few filmmakers in the annals of cinema have earned the right to take a bow likeMartin Scorsese.
Yet my personal reaction to the moment was initial bafflement and a curious melancholy.
There was no mention of the murders.
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The framing of Scorseses ending cameo emphasizes this bitter fact.
She took the scars of what Ernest did to her to the grave.
For some it is also a confounding choice.
We do not see these real-life peoples fates dramatized by the actors we have been watching forso long.
But that is Scorseses point, as well as his final, bitterest confession.
Which brings us back to the final scene ofKillers of the Flower Moon.
The radio show Scorsese appears on in the film is fictional, but what it represented was not.
Notably, Hoover refused to let the real-life White be consulted for that film.
Scorsese recognizes Mollie is the heart of his picture, and even acknowledges that with his onscreen cameo.
Still, even his heart breaks for that Osage womans sad eyes.
Of (white) order being restored.
Fortunately, Scorseses cameo is not the actual final image of the film.
Killers of the Flower Moon is streaming on Apple TV+ now.
