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In Cold Blood



In Cold Blood - in which two felons aim to pull off a big, one time heist in Kansas, but it doesn't go great, and things devolve from there. The movie is based on the book, which is based on the true crime, and Truman Capote wrote this as, like, the definitive true crime novel. And the filmmakers went to great creepy lengths to maintain accuracy, and it works. So, Perry and Dick are two guys who are getting together after doing some time in the same jail, to open a safe at a farm they heard about whilst they were locked up, but the safe was a myth. Perry was ready to split when they found out they were only gonna walk with $43, but Dick went in prepared to shoot the entire family, and they did. The rest of the movie is about their attempted escape, they even made it to Mexico, but Perry has too many traumatic flashbacks to his alcoholic mother, who may have been a prostitute at times, and also seeing her beaten by his father. Perry tried to live with his dad, but his father pointed a gun at him one time when he got mad, and Perry couldn't recover from that. The whole thing paints him as sympathetic, even though he did murder someone. Dick is not sympathetic at all, and seems to be the violent force behind the quadruple murders. The detectives do a great job tracking Dick and Perry down, and they get confessions from them fairly easily, so they both get a death sentence. The hangings are filmed, Perry seems truly remorseful, and apologizes as his, like, last words. Slow, but really, really good.

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