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Coincidence played a role in the coincidence of the commercial launch of the film “Killers of the Flower Moon” by director Martin Scorsese with the genocidal crimes currently being practiced by the Israeli occupation before the eyes of the world against the Palestinian people in Gaza, with the full support of the United States of America. The subject of the film, which was postponed for two full years and reconstructed more than once, presents a very small part of the genocide committed by the Americans against the indigenous people of the land of America.
If the “old American creator with a young conscience” Martin Scorsese touched upon in most of his films the amazing paradox between American officials raising moral slogans in public, in exchange for their cooperation, and even rising on the shoulders of the gangs by secretly receiving financial support from them and practicing assassinations and bullying on their behalf in films such as “Gangs of New York” 2002 and “The Irishman” 2019. His new film depicts a true story of a person who sits at the helm of power in an American town in the state of Oklahoma during the day, while he practices criminality and physical liquidation of indigenous people at night, out of greed. In their wealth.
The genius of coincidence is embodied in the similarity between two countries that were founded on the idea of replacing one people with another people, and using the most brutal methods to implement that replacement. One of them existed more than two centuries ago, and the second existed more than 70 years ago. The most important lesson is that scientific progress has contributed to the advancement of… With machines, but it pushed humans down the moral ladder.
History involved in Balghadar
The Osage Nation is one of the indigenous tribes of the land of America. Oil was discovered in its lands in the state of Oklahoma at the beginning of the 20th century, and within a short period it turned into one of the richest towns. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white intrusive immigrants, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much of the Osage’s money as they could before deciding to kill everyone.
Through a romantic story between Ernest Yorkhart (portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Molly Kyle, who became Molly Yorkhart after her marriage to him (portrayed by Lily Gladstone), “The Moonflower Killers” tells the story of a crime of ethnic cleansing that combines betrayal in its ugliest forms and love in its purest form. Its finest.
The film stars Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, is directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese, and the screenplay is written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese.
The film was adapted from a book of the same name, published in 2017 by American journalist David Gran, and documents the period of terrorism and liquidation of indigenous people in the 1920s, a period during which many members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma were killed because of their oil wealth. These are murders that remained unresolved without a killer being found. Specific, the book details the killings and the investigations of those responsible.
The Osage, like many indigenous tribes in North America, were pushed westward from Missouri by white colonists, until they finally settled in a rocky area in Oklahoma.
The indigenous people hoped that the poor, unarable soil would prevent the white newcomers from displacing them again, but when oil was discovered in the new land, the tribe became very wealthy because they owned capital rights to the oil that could not be sold, but only inherited.
As a result, the white immigrant devised ways to steal the tribe’s money, and when the scams failed, they resorted to murder. The book achieved very large sales, and occupied the top of the “bestseller” list for a long time since its release in 2017.
A film for meditation
Scorsese presents his new film, as if he were a wise man reconsidering and reviewing previous decisions made years ago, and he is keen on that slow pace of the scenes as well, to give him the ability to reveal new details in old scenes of the Osage people, who are jumping for joy at the discovery of oil.
The film then reviews the transformations that occurred in the lives of the tribe’s people, starting from the gold that women began to buy to luxury cars of the standard of the beginning of the last century, but they maintain their traditions, worship, and belief as they are.
Among scenes documenting the lives of the indigenous people who received a grant from the ground, a young man with a handsome, very serious face arrives on a steam train to the train station, and Scorsese reviews, through the eyes of a man between the beginning of the century and beyond the end, the scenes of public spaces in a small town in the state of Oklahoma.
Scorsese confirms from the beginning that what he tells is not pure fiction, so he uses photographs of people recorded in social history as having lived in that stage, and when he moves to the stage of the outbreak of the hell of brutality and murder, the creator of the work does not content himself with mentioning the crimes, but he quickly reviews those crimes in detail, and then Shows black and white photos of victims.
In warm scenes, the work reviews the traditions of the Osage tribe to celebrate the birth of a child and choose a name for him. It also emphasizes the depth of the indigenous people’s connection to nature and presents their religious stories about the moonflower that grows in the hills surrounding their area of residence, and they link its beauty to the Creator’s view of it.
Acceptable opportunism
Actress Lily Gladstone gave a soft and sober performance, befitting a wealthy woman who belongs to a tribe that possesses wisdom and deep knowledge of life and the human soul. In the role of Molly Urquhart, Gladstone was able to use the actor’s most difficult tools, which are the eyes through which she sent a latent energy of reassurance and understanding to a man belonging to a different race, who covets her money, and then she loved him despite his frankness to her that part of the reasons for his love for her was her wealth.
The film presented a unique story, as white immigrants live in the hope of a look of satisfaction from the original owners of the land who own the oil rights, and they live a life of extreme wealth, but they have “big hearts,” as described by Uncle William Hale (actor Robert De Niro), who presents He played the role of the murderous villain with no less efficiency than the starring roles for the good in his previous works.
The evil uncle (De Niro) received his nephew (DiCaprio), who came from World War II and was injured in the stomach in a way that does not allow him to do a job that requires great physical effort. The two agree on this and in the end reach the conviction that the injured young man will work as a private driver. He sets his net around the wealthy woman (Lily Gladstone), or “Molly,” the daughter of a family that belongs to the Osage tribe.
The uncle’s agreement with his nephew was only part of a plan carried out by white racists to steal the wealth of the Osage tribe by marrying women and then getting rid of them and inheriting the children. Oil rights were not bought or sold, but were only inherited. Despite the brutality of the scene, its details were not known. It was only revealed through a book by David Grann, who continued to investigate the gruesome story for nearly a decade.
The people of the tribe felt the conspiracy, after repeated cases of killing, and the authorities’ neglect of investigating the crime, so the tribe’s leader said after the killing of his sister Molly (Lily Gladstone) that “the enemy is responsible for killing our sons and daughters, and he wants us all to die, and we will not mind that.” But we will take him with us.”
The scene of the agreement between the uncle and the nephew recalls those traditional scenes in poor homes of a woman agreeing with her daughter to lure a rich groom into marriage, out of a desire by the two to secure the future of the family, and then the mother begins to decorate the daughter, which is a genius gesture in its simplicity, carried out by De Niro. ; He took off his nephew’s hat, assuring him that he was handsome and could make the rich lady fall in love with him.
De Niro, or “William Hill”, is the deputy mayor of Fairfax, a town in the state of Oklahoma, who represents the authority in the town and takes care of the affairs of everyone, whether they are immigrants or natives. Ironically, he is the real criminal and planner of the crimes of the physical elimination of the indigenous population.
Discovering conscience
Despite his nearly 80 years of age, and his more than 70 films, including feature films, documentaries, and short films, Scorsese presented for the first time a film that could belong to the “cowboy” or “cowboy” films, and despite that, the distinctive character of the new version of the veteran, which… It appeared with the film “The Irishman” that distinguished him, as the wisdom of age gave him a state of contemplation that was reflected in his films.
“The Moonflower Killers,” which lasts for three and a half hours, was worth the two-year wait, not for the superior cinematic enjoyment that always characterizes his films, but because of that rational discourse that calls on the American conscience to review itself, especially since the unspoken crimes of genocide committed by the American and Western immigrants against the population. The originality is undeniable.
