KILLERS OF THE FLOWERS MOON
Type: epic fresco
Direction: Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgw, Tantoo Cardinal, Brendan Fraser
Deprived and locked up in a reserve in the mid-nineteenth century, the Osage nation suddenly became wealthy in the 1920s after the discovery of oil in their territories, thus igniting the greed of the white community of Oklahoma, ready to do anything to take possession of those unexpected riches.
And Scorsese, starting from David Grann’s investigative book, reconstructs those facts telling of a country that only thought about enriching itself and despised those it considered inferior, such as the natives: a film that is a journey into the many faces of evil, naive and malleable that of the nephew who returned without art or part from the First World War, luciferian and insinuating that of the uncle ready to transform himself into an authentic puppeteer of death.
The film thus becomes a descent into the hell of immoralityin a world where everything seems permitted and feelings are trampled by greed: the other side of a West without rules and without mythswhere even that bit of charm that the “bad boys” had been able to exert in the past has vanished.
Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from Scorsese’s film “Killers of Flower Moon” (photo by Melinda Sue Gordon).
And in DiCaprio’s bewildered gaze, forced in the end to take responsibility for his own actions, there is all the sense of a film that will never be forgotten.
For those who love great historical frescoes.
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