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For some unforeseen reason, a series of murders have necessitated the return of the character Harry Hole from La-La Land.
A disabled forensics expert turned psychologist, Bratt has the challenge of solving Miss Bettison’s case. With her disfigured body found mounted on a tree, it is apparent that she is a victim of a psychopath. Bratt’s ex-lover is assumed to be the most appropriate for the case, but as a previously disgraced officer, there are severe hurdles. The real estate magnate Markus Rued who was involved with both victims serves as a crucial suspect.
The real twist in the tale begins with Harry’s final fee, the bespoken staggering cost is $960,000. In dire need to pay off the Esposito family Lucille Owens’ owes them a blessing of sorts Harry’s in Los Angeles is the beginning of a world of trouble.
In the eerie month of May, as coyote’s under a unusually massive moon let out cries filled with despair, the intriguing world of plants begins to unfold. It goes on to reveal the mistreatment as more lumbering plants like spiderworts along with black-eyed Susan’s tend to cover the less dense blooms, leaving behind a barren wasteland. As flowers drew closer to blooming, the petals began to go on their tour around the globe, They were witness to a gruesome burial deep beneath the surface.
My narrative begins with a quote, “This is why the Osage Indians refer to May as the time of the flower-killing moon.” It was mentioned in Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. The powerful imagery depicted in the quote is extremely chilling in context of the rest of the story. Grin is a brilliant author and researcher and in his book, ‘Killers of the Flower’, he chronicles the abominable treatment faced by the Indigenous people of America. The book was published in 2017 when I got my hands on it and it remains one of the most difficult books to get through.
Being a woman of color, I was adopted by a white couple and have written extensively on my adoption and childhood set in 1960s Kansas, This Chino, a Indigenous woman from Oklahoma, was in the process of crossing the border to give me up for adoption to avoid the tight bound cultural restrictions, brought the book significantly closer to home. And so, for the sake of getting my context straight, I decided to learn more about the movie ‘Killers of the Flower’, which is based on the book and directed Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone.
Although I hold a great deal of admiration towards Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, and consider their film crafting to be top class, my perception regarding “Killers of the Flower Moon” was very different. The movie industry in Hollywood whitewashes nearly everything it touches, and this movie was no exception. The imbalance of personnel involved such as a White director, four White producers, two White screenwriters, and a White lead overshadowed the presence of a single Native lead and Osage ‘consultants and cultural advisors’, along with ‘Robbie Robertson’, the First Nations composer. Angela Aldiss, an author and a Columbia University doctorate film scholar, also commented that “no Native American is credited as being involved in the movie’s screenwriting, production or directing creative processes. This is an ongoing problem.”
In a similar vein, Devery Jacobs an Indigenous actress of Mohawk heritage described the film as “painful, grueling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic” which I also agree with. The depiction of racism and genocide by a whole ethnicity for the purpose of entertainment to a modern audience is quite worrying. The movie strongly posed the question, why does the suffering of an entire ethnicity need to bode well for people’s economics?
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