Devery Jacobs has ‘strong feelings’ about ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ and says the film ‘dehumanizes people’

Devery Jacobs watched Martin Scorsese Flower Moon Killer and has “strong feelings” about the film.

A thread shared on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, reads: Reservations dogs Star said the “film was painful, grueling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic.”

“As a resident, watching this film was hell. “Imagine the worst atrocities committed against ancestors this year and then you have to watch a movie that is expressly about them and the only intermission is 30 minutes of murderous white boys talking about the murders/executing the murder plans,” she told Sent.

Jacobs called Lily Gladstone “an absolute legend” for her portrayal of Mollie, adding: “All the incredible indigenous actors were the only redeeming factors of this film. Give Lily her damn Oscar.”

She continued, “But while all the performances were strong, if you look at the proportions, each of the Osage characters looked painfully repressed, while the white men were given much more civility and depth.”

Jacobs continues to talk about the film’s violent scenes, understanding that it is “a brutal shock value that forces people to understand the true horrors that have befallen this community.”

“I do not believe these very real people were given honor or dignity by the gruesome portrayal of their deaths,” she added. “On the contrary, I believe that portraying more murdered indigenous women normalizes violence against us and further dehumanizes our people.”

“I can’t believe this has to be said, but indigenous people exist beyond our grief, our trauma and our cruelty. Our pride in being indigenous, our languages, cultures, joy and love is much more interesting and humane than showing the horrors that white men have done to us.”

Jacobs called on non-indigenous directors to focus the story on “the white perspective and focus on the pain of the indigenous population.” While she acknowledges that this story is worth telling, she would have preferred if an Osage filmmaker had been given the $200 million budget to tell his own story.

Read all the messages Jacobs shared below.