Lessons from Scorsese’s thesis statement.
Whatever was left of my heart, broken by Lily Gladstone‘s tender and silently devastating performance as Molly, was finally dusted when the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, himself appeared to read the end of the story.
In his thoughtful reflection on the film, its film-making, and its film-maker, Thomas Flight opines that Scorsese “breaks the fourth wall here to bring you into the story almost as if to say, ‘It’s not a story. This is the real world.’“, expanding on his observation that the director, “who is now 81 and nearing the end of a long and industrious career, was [with Killers…] making the thesis statement of many of his most successful films explicit”:
StudioBinder explains the film’s “hybrid camera setup“:
And on the film’s cinematography (and editing):