Killers of the Flower Moon, the latest film from Martin Scorsese, takes an unexpected turn in its final scene, punctuated by a powerful cameo. The 1920s epic tells the story of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe who became the victims of a series of murders after oil was found on their land. The film focuses on the relationship between Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Osage wife, Mollie (Lilly Gladstone), and how it becomes strained by trust, money, and family.Killers of the Flower Moon spends over three hours playing as a straight drama, depicting the betrayals and tragedy with the somberness that the subject matter demands. But after Ernest testifies against the other whites, who’ve been committing the murders, and lies to Molly one final time, something changes. The film moves forward in time to the 1930s. It shows an audience looking up at a stage crowded with people recounting what happened to the characters in the film. The last person to take the microphone is Martin Scorsese himself. On a purely functional level, this scene replaces the white text over black that traditionally ends historical dramas, but in addressing the audience in this way, Scorsese says far more than it may first seem.In a sadly ironic twist, the Osage murders would not have been the type of case to feature on a show like The Lucky Strike Hour. Although the story did gain media attention at the time, Native Americans getting killed was nowhere near as interesting to the general public as white Americans getting killed, leading to the story being largely forgotten. Yet, as the ending of Killers of the Flower Moon shows, even if the tragedy had been featured on such a show, it would have been trivialized. Turned into a product of audience entertainment — or ‘content,’ as Scorsese might call it — that valorizes the FBI without considering the real cost to the victims.Martin Scorsese Says Robert De Niro’s Character in Taxi Driver Is Now the Norm
Killers of the Flower Moon, the latest film from Martin Scorsese, takes an unexpected turn in its final scene, punctuated by a powerful cameo. The 1920s epic tells the story of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe who became the victims of a series of murders after oil was found on their land. The film focuses on the relationship between Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Osage wife, Mollie (Lilly Gladstone), and how it becomes strained by trust, money, and family.
Killers of the Flower Moon spends over three hours playing as a straight drama, depicting the betrayals and tragedy with the somberness that the subject matter demands. But after Ernest testifies against the other whites, who’ve been committing the murders, and lies to Molly one final time, something changes. The film moves forward in time to the 1930s. It shows an audience looking up at a stage crowded with people recounting what happened to the characters in the film. The last person to take the microphone is Martin Scorsese himself. On a purely functional level, this scene replaces the white text over black that traditionally ends historical dramas, but in addressing the audience in this way, Scorsese says far more than it may first seem.
In a sadly ironic twist, the Osage murders would not have been the type of case to feature on a show like The Lucky Strike Hour. Although the story did gain media attention at the time, Native Americans getting killed was nowhere near as interesting to the general public as white Americans getting killed, leading to the story being largely forgotten. Yet, as the ending of Killers of the Flower Moon shows, even if the tragedy had been featured on such a show, it would have been trivialized. Turned into a product of audience entertainment — or ‘content,’ as Scorsese might call it — that valorizes the FBI without considering the real cost to the victims.
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