Both the movie (and the book, albeit to a lesser degree) both want to treat the historical events as a sensational murder mystery that operates in this specific period of the 1920s tied to oil. The murders were part of a much larger process to strip indigenous peoples of land and resources, much of it not tied to events like a house blowing up. 

- Lily Gladstone deserves Best Actress
- Jason Isbell was a good kind of creepy and he would have honestly made a better Ernest than Leo. 
- Lithgow versus Fraser as dueling attorneys was excellent casting