A new promotional trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon dropped this week.
Set to release in select theaters on October 6, 2023, and nationwide on October 20, 2023, Killers of the Flower Moon is one of the most anticipated motion pictures in over a decade.
The Cast of Killers of the Flower Moon
Before you see Killers of the Flower Moon, a lesson in syllogism and logic may be helpful
Syllogism means, “A deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion.”
Logic means, “The formal principles of reasoning.”
I have read David Grann‘s book Killers of the Flowers Moon. It’s excellent. I am Choctaw Indian in my heritage. I live sixty miles away from Osage County as the crow flies.
If you leave the movie and conclude, “All white men are evil,” then you have been propagandized and fallen into the illogical syllogism trap.
The Movie And Illogical Conclusions
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1, All the men in Killers of the Flower Moon who married Osage women for their oil rights were white.
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2. The white men who killed their Osage wives for the oil rights on Osage property were crazy maniacs.
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3. All white men are crazy maniacs.
The above false syllogism will lead you to think that all white men are crazy maniacs.
The Truth About White Men in America
The truth of American history is much more profound.
In the courage and achievements of men like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and hundreds of other Founding Fathers, we find a more accurate portrayal of men of the Caucasian race.
#WhiteManAintNoSchlump.
Our great country was built by Founding Fathers willing to die so that their families and friends might be free. As Benjamin Franklin said at the signing of the Declaration of Independence to his fellow signees:
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
That’s courage. That’s our country.
The evil among the Osage needs to be a lesson for all time. But the lesson is not to denigrate the white men who founded the United States of America.
While visiting the Mercantile in Pawhuska with family, we chose to eat lunch at a small BBQ place a block away. The owner told us of this movie being filmed n and around the area and he also had a small part as an extra. At that time I had never heard of the book Killers of the Flower Moon but I look forward to seeing it and I hope to read the book first.
Wade,
Judy has read the book, Killers of the Flowers Moon, and agrees with you 100%. She says the theme of the book is about greed by people taking advantage of others.
Judy’s a smart gal!
If we walk away from the movie with the understanding that greed is immoral, we’ll be a better people and a better country.
If we walk away thinking “white men are evil,” we’ll be a worse off as a people and poorer as a country.
Am looking forward to seeing the film which I take it is based on real occurrences.
Wade,
Your comment about Judy was on July 10, 2023 at 8:51 pm. How did Christiane’s comment show up AFTER yours, but was on July 10, 2023 at 7:18 pm??? (By the way, Judy is in a book club.)
Rex, when you “Reply” to a particular comment (as I did yours about Judy), the Reply falls under the original comment – no matter the time it was made.
Christiane’s comment was made (in time) before I replied to your comment, but since what she wrote was a new comment and not a Reply to your comment, her new comment comes after my Reply to your old comment. Make sense?
And I may be the only person (as administrator) who can insert a reply underneath a comment. I can do that on what is called “the back end” but I don’t see any ability for others to do it on the front end – 🙂
I got to thinking about my ‘comment’ and I decided that ‘looking forward to seeing the film’ may NOT have been the full truth. Of course, I intend to see the film for myself. However, the previews do bring to mind that this film tells of another chapter in ‘the Legends of the Fall’; and THAT film broke my heart with its pathos. . . . .
I think Wade is right for us not to ‘judge’ a ‘race’ by the evil shown in a film . . . . maybe the only ‘race’ to consider is, after all, the HUMAN race, to which we all belong and to which we all must ‘own\ that we are a wounded lot in need of healing . . . from greed, from hate, from envy, from all the sins that drove our kind out of Eden thinking we were ‘entitled’ to take what was forbidden. . . . . so I foresee that the movie under discussion is a portrayal of humans in all their aspects, that there will be both love and tragedy shown, and that this film is another look at what people are ‘capable of’ and perhaps it is another ‘warning’ to us to hold back from temptation to take from others what is not ours to take: principally, their human dignity in the face of their Creator God. So I will watch the film, yes.
Race? I leave the contempt of other races to them what ‘needs’ to look down on ‘the others’ in order to find for themselves some sense of righteousness, a ‘need’ that tells me them what hates are themselves afflicted with self-hatred and are wounded too, and in need of Christ Who heals all wounds in His time. All shall be well in the Kingdom of Our Lord.
Maybe I learn something when I see this film, but it will not be contempt for a race, but that in the end, as in Eden, the real ‘enemy’ is satan, not my wounded brothers and sisters.
Christiane,
Well said.
Wade, I read the obituaries today. I like what one said:
“It broke my heart to lose you, but you didn’t go alone. Part of me went with you, the day God took you home.”
I hate the machine!
To bed to bed said Sleepy Head
Wait said Slow.
Wait said Greedy Gut, let’s eat before we go.
I don’t think I’m over-stating things when I say, your post is a simplistic profundity that is greatly needed. {I know using “simplistic” with “profundity” is an oxymoron, but it does express what I wish to say.]
Dad