„Killers of the Flower Moon“ von Scorsese: Reiche Indigene, ruchlose Weiße

For a brief moment, it could have been seen as a fateful compensation for the injustices they had endured: in the late 19th century, oil reserves were discovered in Osage County, Oklahoma, which is the reservation area of the indigenous Osage Nation. A statute granted the Osage members the rights to the minerals, and within a few years, they became the ethnic group with the highest per capita wealth worldwide.

Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the book by David Grann with the same name, captures the fleeting nature of this happiness in a euphoric and meditative slow-motion sequence: Several Osage men dance around a gushing oil well, their skin illuminated by the „I cannot reword“