Movies: Killers Of The Flower Moon

(Drivebycuriosity) - Martin Scorsese reached the age of 81. It´s time for the great opus, his "Alterswerk", to crown his impressive oeuvre (imdb ). 

With "Killers of the Flower Moon", a non-fictional book by David Grann, he chose the right topic: In the 1920s American natives in Oklahoma, the Osage people, are murdered one by one, because they owned land were recently oil was found. The killing of the "savages" did get not much attention by the law and the public. While Americans are obsessed with all the evil which is happening beyond the ocean, they are still blind to crimes on the natives, who once owned America.  

I was captured by the plot and the performances (you can find a synopsis here ). Leonardo DiCaprio impressed as a slow-witted guy, who could easy be manipulated. The audience could read his face when some half-baked insights were wandering through his mind, but not really arrived. Robert De Niro convinced as the shrewd puppet master in the evil games. I also liked the performance of Lily Gladstone, who has native (Blackfeet and Nez Perce) & European ancestors.

Thanks to Grann, Scorsese & Apple, who created and produced the movie, for throwing some light on an almost forgotten part of American history.