It had to be done. Scorsese has achieved the equivalent of the great American novel on a screen. At Cannes, it was as if he wanted to show all the contenders what cinema was all about. The audience was stunned. The other directors breathed a sigh of relief: Killers of the Flower Moon was not in competition. That's where the film comes in. We discover the foundations on which the United States was built. They are called murder, lies, and rapacity.
A brief reminder of the facts. Uprooted from their homelands by the government of the time, the Osage tribes were allotted arid land in Oklahoma that turned out to be full of oil. Divine surprise. The Indians are rich and don't know what to do with them. They drive in chauffeur-driven cars, play golf, travel in private planes, usually sinking into alcoholism. One detail: they enjoy their fortune, but are placed under guardianship. The whites will use a whole bunch of means to rob them...
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