Why Ernest Drinks Mollie’s Poison In Killers Of The Flower Moon Explained By Scorsese

Killers of the Flower Moon director Martin Scorsese breaks down the scene in which Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) drinks some of Mollie Burkhart’s (Lily Gladstone) poison. Scorsese’s crime drama tells the true story of the Osage Nation in the 1920s, during which the community faced a string of suspicious murders after becoming wealthy from discovering oil on their land. It was uncovered that several white men conspired to murder the Osage to steal their oil royalties. Among the conspirators was Ernest, who killed his wife Mollie’s family and even allegedly poisoned her for an extended amount of time.