Between 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon and Lakota Nation vs. United States, can America finally grasp its original sin?
that “this film was not made for an Osage audience, it was made for everybody not Osage.” As a movie focused on the murders of Osage people, that sounds concerning. But he continued explaining that, while those who have been oppressed can relate, it’s really there for those who’ve benefited from the oppression. It gives them an opportunity to ask themselves the movie’s hard questions.
Both movies address specific instances of genocide in the language of their form. One looks like an academic poem, fiery and beautiful. One looks like a bloody blockbuster, righteous and subversive. One uses the vocabulary of resistance. One speaks the venomous words of settlers. Approached from opposite perspectives, these two movies desperately insist on self-reflection.
Now, alongside them, are William Hale and Ernest Burkhart . William requests that his nephew Ernest, newly back from WWI, do like those around him in Fairfax, Oklahoma, and show him fealty as its “King.” William encourages Ernest to romantically pursue Mollie , an Osage woman whom the would-be tyrant sees as a gateway to more oil money.trailer. It memorably overlays Ernest’s voiceover reading of “Can you see the wolves in this picture?” with images of white men.
The second reiterates how easy it is to see the atrocities at hand if you haven’t blinded yourself. The killers are never obscured, as the-like question drives home. “Can you see the wolves in this picture?” You can only miss them, and what this means, intentionally.In my review of the latter, I wrote that it uses plain language and plain images to rewrite assumptions so ingrained in the story of our country as to be invisible. The U.S. perspective isn’t a useful one for the doc to reckon with.
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