Can One Be Both Critic and Artist?

Do you think this industry has a thick enough skin where you can criticize someone’s work while also trying to work in the same industry?

Probably not.

I mean, you could criticize, but probably not publicly. They’ll destroy you and “make sure you never work in this town again”.

But screw it, I’m not a fan of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. I found it self-indulgent, too long, inconsiderate, and captured entirely from the wrong perspective. I almost walked out of the theater when I saw the ending. I love Scorsese’s films (The Aviator being my favorite. It’s also my favorite DiCaprio film.), but this was not his best work.

I know the critics will applaud it because they don’t want to critique a movie about the calculated and heinous murder of indigenous people. Of course the subject matter is important. The format used to tell their story? Abysmal.

This should have been better. The Osage people deserved better.

Welp, guess I’ll never work in Hollywood.

C'est la vie.