Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” inspired by David Grann’s homonymous nonfiction book, shows a complexity that goes beyond the representation of the assassinations of hundreds of Osage people, robbed of their oil-rich land a hundred years ago. Bringing together three paradigmatic figures of American history, Scorsese’s film reveals the power dynamics among preachers of death, greedy fools, and native people, in a world in which legality is used as a vehicle of crime.
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