Cold Blood Runs Through It

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2006)

When Truman Capote announces to his publisher that he has the title for his evolving book -- and its evolving format that would change forever how books are written -- an overarching theme is established that plays itself out in this screenplay writing. That theme: there are lots of cold blooded decisions that are made by lots of otherwise simple, nice folks in order to get a bit ahead of the game of navigating and manipulating life as it progresses day by day.
We saw it in Capote, we saw it in the murderers, we saw it in the book publisher, we saw it the sheriff, we saw it in the jail system, and we saw it on how the state executes an execution and how the priest administers the last prayer before the execution without feeling or guilt.
In Cold Blood. We all walk away from our own acts of violence however small, and simply justify them because it is only our job for which we get paid in a system that is bigger than any of the players.
That is what I observed and carried way after watching CAPOTE yesterday.
Viewing this film was a wonderful experience while AMPAS simmers in the background to make a decision in a week or so to judge a bumper crop of great films in all categories.
I can hardly wait for: ENVELOPE PLEASE!