Blue
Caprice (2013/Sundance/MPI DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: B- Extras: B Film: B+
Inspired
by actual events, Lee (Tequan Richmond) was abandoned by his mother,
but he was taken in by an unlikely disgraced 'father', John. John
(co-producer Isaiah Washington), who is bitter at the world, spends
the next couple of months teaching Lee how to become a sniper, how
society has crumbled and how they need to wake up people by 'killing'
random people to wake them up from their apathy. They then go for a
cross country killing spree until they are finally stopped by the
police in Alexandre Moors' Blue Caprice (2013).
Both
Lee and John have never had much, they are angry and they feel like
the world has been unfair to them and cheated them out of what should
of been theirs. Lee needed a parental figure and adopts John as his
new 'dad'. John noticing Lee's potential as a natural sniper uses
Lee as his tool of vengeance against the world, after losing his wife
and children in a divorce custody. Angry at the world, they start
targeting are anyone who they can get without being caught, that is
until a random policeman stops them for an inspection.
Based
on the story of the DC snipers, it dives into the mind of how a boy
can be turned into a cold blooded killer. How an angry man teaches
and twists a young boy into becoming an unfeeling killer without
morals. Believing the system/society/government is broken and
corrupt they believe the only wake up society is by killing people,
and to make no one feel safe.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is styled down to be dark and
has more softness than it should have, while the lossy Dolby Digital
5.1 has some life to it and is not bad throughout. Extras include a
feature length audio commentary with Director Moors, press
conference, behind the scenes and trailers.
-
Ricky Chiang
