'Killers of the Flower Moon' has brought to light a lesser-known, but no-less dark and despicable episode of racial oppression in American history, beyond the slavery of the blacks.
In the 1920s, families of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma were granted headrights by the court to a share of the profits from oil deposits found on their land, and this made them quite wealthy. Not long after that, white folks also settled in the area and started their own families after marrying Osage women. The most influential and respectable of these white settlers was William Hale who owned a sprawling cattle ranch.
This film has brought to light a lesser-known, but no-less dark and despicable episode of racial oppression in American history, beyond the slavery of the blacks. It showed how the Native Americans, the original inhabitants of the USA, were being raped of their culture, cheated out of their fortune, up to the point of being actually being physically murdered -- all borne out of wanton greed of unscrupulous white interlopers.
As the dignified Osage lady Mollie, Lily Gladstone is a mesmerizing screen presence. She proudly wore her native Osage garb and looked absolutely elegant in these colorful printed dresses. She played a woman and a Native American, so she was expectedly at the receiving end of insults, commands, and injustice, but Mollie still kept her honor and dignity intact. She was the beating heart of this story as she represented the sorry plight of her people.
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