"Dead Man Walking: Part 2".

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2007)

Let's not kid each other here. The main reason why this movie was "recognized" by the Acadumby voters is because of its more-or-less blatant anti-death penalty message. Needless to say, I would have stayed away from this movie had I known it was just another political-issue-of-the-week drama. I should have known better, of course, than to trust an Oscar film.
It is absolutely amazing to me that they would sell this movie under the title of "Capote". The story is about a certain part of his life, it is not nearly as biographical and extensive as it should/could have been. From what I know, his life was interesting enough to warrant a proper bio, and not this kind of moody, slow-moving small slice of the pie. The acting is good, but the script is too limited in scope.
Back to the death penalty. Hollywood's obsession with promoting its damn liberal ideals is unceasing and will not/cannot cease  EVER. This much we know. It's neither the first nor last anti-death penalty movie they'll unleash at us. I do not see how we as the viewers are supposed to sympathize AT ALL with these two robbers/murderers. They kill a family ("In Cold Blood") and yet we are presented all this left-wing drivel about a poor childhood, this and that, ladida Who gives a s***?! (Of course, the killer being part-Indian exonerates him from most guilt  in the eyes of Hollywood's unintelligentsia.) They should have been hung 4 years earlier! End of story, and let's now have more about Capote. Instead, we get to study in great detail his emotional connection with one of the killers. Sorry, but this is simply not enough  and I'd trust Hollywood to have over-dramatized this relationship, too, so I can't even be sure if its even in any way justifiable, from a biographical viewpoint.