One of my favorite movies I watched in film study this year. It's sadistic but has some great performances. One of the movies that doesn't have to show everything to get it's point across. Less is more is true to this movie. Plus the score is FANTASTIC!

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In Cold Blood, the adaptation of Truman Capote's famous book is an interesting, if a bit dry character study. It mostly tells us the story of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock before and in particular after their crime, saving up the scene of the actual crime until close to the end of the movie. While some of the things told here were fascinating, I still thought that others, like the scenes of the police investigations proved to be rather distracting. I'd have prefered if the entire film had focused on Perry and Dick and their motives (or the lack thereof). Thus, I found it a bit disappointing that this aspect wasn't delved enough into, one or two main scenes aside.

Acting-wise, the film is fine, but no one really stand out, maybe except for Robert Blake (Perry). Overall, none was Osar-worthy, though. I did appreciate the movie's technical aspects as the music and especially the cinematography was aces. I also must commend the fact that they didn't really try hard to hide Perry Smith's apparent homosexuality in this. Of course, there are no explicit scenes, but the implicatons are very obvious.

On the whole, it's an interesting movie, but never went beyond that to me, as it failed to get me really involved into the proceedings or the characters. For a really fascinating trip into a killer's mind, there was too little depth overall.