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In Cold Blood (1968)
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Movie Review by Lona
February 9th, 2007
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Based on a true crime turned into a non fiction book by Truman Capote, In Cold Blood is the story of a heinous crime gone wrong. Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock ruthlessly murder the Clutter family, convinced by an ex cell mate that the Clutters have a safe containing $10,000 in their house; they kill all 4 family members walking away with only $43, a pair of binoculars and a radio.
I would recommend paying strict attention to this movie if you tend to talk throughout them, there is a lot of scene jumping throughout this movie which builds up to the last 45 minutes. The murder scene is not showed at the beginning but at the end, I was a little bit stunned when the killers walked up to the house and then it cut to a scene of the police arriving at the house, but it adds to the realistic grimness of the last 45 minutes, it makes more of an impact because you are constantly wondering what they did, what happened.
The killers drive down to Mexico after the killing, and hold up there for a while before returning to the states where they are captured. In Mexico, Perry has a flashback of his Mother seducing a man in front of her kids, a man proceeds to barge in, whip her and pour alcohol all over her body. These little insights to Perry's background indicate that maybe he was crazy/damaged, his Father or "The Lone Wolf" offers detectives stories of Perry as a child and insists he raised him well, Perry on death row tells of a psychotic Father who pointed and shot an unloaded gun at him for eating a biscuit.
Perry and Dick waited on death row for 5 years. They were both sentenced to be hung, originally on Friday the 13th. The gallows scene was pretty bad, I sympathised with Blake's character Perry, that and the fact that he was pretty suave and an interesting character with his leather jacket and rockabilly hair. This film made me come away from it feeling sick, in the final scene Perry's body is dangling and the words "In Cold Blood" come on the screen. It makes you think about capital punishment, isn't it just as bad as murder?
The film looks amazing, has a noir edge to it, it is incredibly dark and at times exudes such a realistic quality that you forget it's a movie. The jazz soundtrack by Quincy Jones reminded me hugely of Angelo Badalamenti and Twin Peaks, (there is even a mention of cherry pie). I found no major flaws to this film, so if you are a goof nerd go find them at IMDb I am not going to be picky/b*tchy over a make of guitar or someone saying $40 then $43. But here is a little bit of trivia for you, this was the first movie in the US to use the word sh*t.
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 | Zara
Feb 9, 2007 10:28 AM
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| Robert Blake is utterly terrifying. I remember getting chills watching him. |
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