"I love money as much as I love my wife (Mollie) "
- Ernest
That one dialogue which was very casually delivered in the first hour comes echoing with epic proportions of complex emotions at the final confrontation scene between Ernest and Mollie, where Ernest is caught in an inexplicable state of mind as to which among the two he favored the most, was it Mollie or Money? and as Leo begins to enact the perplexity, you see the man shattering to pieces, it's bound to remind one how greatly DiCaprio can hypnotize us with his unrivaled enactment, it is very intense and arouses the overwhelming feeling that arrests your nerves.
Scorsese continues to prove why he is such a virtuoso at fleshing out characters, Ernest, Hale, and Mollie, they are so fascinatingly complete with desire, ambitions, and love, and when emotions intercede for love, the goals begin to break, the dark side becomes eviler and eviler to the point where there is no hope left for redemption.
Lily Gladstone as Mollie and Robert De Niro as Hale were just at their best in embodying the dramatics and subtleties of their stark opposite characterizations.
Robbie Robertson's score of guitar solos softly yet spookily emphasizes the bleak nature of the proceedings.
This is a movie that achieves epicness not on breathtaking visuals but on breath-holding intimate moments, especially in the final hour, the tension in the talk, the drama in the silences in between, and, the overall atmosphere, get combined to contribute in nothing but an exceptional cinematic experience. 💚
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