KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Two viewings of Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon left me with an overwhelming sense that this is one of most important films of our time, and the last film of its kind, mostly because Scorsese is the last director of his kind.
With Killers, based on David Grann’s book about the Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma and the emergence of the FBI, Scorsese has made a mythic American movie that critiques both American myths and mythic American movies. It’s the biggest movie ever made with Native American people as key figures; it’s about selfishness and racism, individualism and tribalism (of the white supremacist kind), gender and religion, about stories of how nations came to be, and about storytelling itself.
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