In Cold Blood Movie Review

In Cold Blood Review

        In Cold Blood is a tragic story of 2 men, Eugene Hickock and

Perry Edward, who murder an entire family in search of money and past find

themselves running from the law. While writing the book, Truman Capote

used only facts to create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of

notes on the subject, save his problem was making his book read like a novel.

He accomplished this by adding dialogue and describing characters feelings.

This technique is used in the film as well when flashbacks of characters

childhoods be shown.

        The different plots are handled very well in the movie. The main plot

obviously is the murders and the run from the law. separate subplots that are

shown are Smiths internal fight with his past in which his nonplus deserted him,

and at one point, had a gun pointed to his head. as well as there appears to be

tension between Smith and Hickock. They think differently at times,

especially when it comes to the discussion of the crime. You cant help hardly

feel sympathetic towards Smith, as it appears that he is hale into this by

Hickock. All characters in the movie were played well by the actors in my

opinion.



They all seemed real and seemed to fit in with the position and the

time period.

        I think that Hickock and Smith are not victims of forces beyond their

control, they are victims of, at least in Smiths case, a bragging(a) upbringing. The

two murderers have no direction in their lives. The only skills that Hickock

seems to hunch forward is how to steal things and how to write phony checks. Smith

seems more sane than Hickock, but all he has is his guitar and that is stolen in

Mexico. This is...

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