Killers of the Flower Moon is magnificent

Watching the release of a cinematic masterpiece is an indescribable thrill, and when a director like Martin Scorsese signs it, it's like diving into an unknown yet intoxicating landscape. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is simultaneously a romance, western, drama, crime film, and even a mystery.

All these genres flow and intertwine in the 3 hours and 26 minutes of screening, from the moment war veteran but still young Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) disembarks at the Fairfax, Oklahoma train station in search of a new life.

Soon, he'll be greeted by Uncle William Hale (the always fantastic Robert De Niro), a prosperous cattle rancher known as 'the King of the Osage Hills,' an indigenous tribe expelled from Kansas who, ironically, discovered oil in that region, making the ethnic group the wealthiest in the world in the early 20th century.

Hale's concern is to know if his nephew is healthy and fond of women and money. Upon confirmation, he states that the Osage are 'the most refined, richest, and most beautiful people on God's earth.'

Love and Death on Flower Moon

Following this advice, but also out of mutual enchantment, Ernest meets and marries Mollie Kyle (the excellent Lily Gladstone), an Osage woman living in his house with her ailing mother, Lizzie Q (Tantoo Cardinal). With this, the young man enters the line of succession of the wealthy girl's property.

The multifaceted romance between them never hints at any sinister motives. However, Mollie's sisters have all died under violent and inexplicable circumstances, leaving their husbands as heirs to a great fortune.

This succession of supposed crimes eventually leads to a significant federal investigation involving the powerful J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, who sends Agent Tom White (Jesse Plemons) to Oklahoma.

The outcome of the investigations, evident in the book of the same name on which the film is based, becomes somewhat controversial for the viewer, not because it's unexpected, but because Scorsese's ability to defy conventions leaves us utterly perplexed."