Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a warning to the true crime industry.
, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film:. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember the people behind all the pain — the victims and survivors of rampant evil., the film centers on the Osage people of Oklahoma after the discovery of oil on their land leads white settlers to target them for their money.
The tone shifts at the end of the film, and after more than three hours of seeing the Osage tribe destroyed, we end on a jaunty old radio show in which a white audience listens, rapt, as a cast of similarly caucasian actors recap a very different story than we just saw unfold. This one centered on the nascent FBI and their agents’ daring takedown of the titular
The show is retitled in the film, but according to Grann’s book, it’s based on a program that launched in 1932 in partnership with the FBI to dramatize their cases called. One of the first episodes was about the Osage murders and includes fictional scenes in which Ernest Burkhart plots the murders of the family of his Osage wife, Mollie . Burkhart and his uncle, Hale, were arrested for their crimes, though they were eventually released and lived out their final days as free men.
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