{"id":11662,"date":"2015-04-19T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2015-04-19T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T17:20:51","slug":"true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUE STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what film it is, my attention is immediately drawn by the mere mention of the name \u201cJames Franco\u201d.\u00a0 Then you toss in the fact the film is based on real people and real events and I\u2019m in for long haul.\u00a0 Such is the case with TRUE STORY.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reminiscent of the well known relationship that developed between Truman Capote and Perry Smith during the writing of \u201cIn Cold Blood\u201d, such is the case with TRUE STORY and the strange relationship between disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel and convicted killer Christian Longo.\u00a0 Big difference, however, is that Perry Smith never tried to impersonate or take over the identity of Capote while Chris Longo did just that to Finkel, setting the wheels of Fate in motion for an extraordinary story.\u00a0 I knew of the story and it fascinated me &#8211; particularly Finkel&#8217;s gullibility and obvious insatiable need for validation of himself, to be someone other than a good investigative reporter,\u00a0 to be a &#8220;star&#8221; and make himself the story rather than let a story be &#8220;the story&#8221;,\u00a0 all at a cost of journalistic, and personal, ethics and integrity.\u00a0 To see everything unfold in TRUE STORY through writer\/director Rupert Goold\u2019s vision based on Finkel\u2019s memoirs, is enthralling and unfortunately, a sad commentary on the demise of investigative reporting and journalism today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/true-story-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2ebsse1o\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10374\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/true-story-1-400x93.jpg\" alt=\"true story - 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/true-story-1-400x93.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/true-story-1-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/true-story-1.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We meet hard-hitting New York Times journalist Michael Finkel deep in the heart of Africa doing interviews with young African boys about cocoa plantation slavery in the Ivory Coast.\u00a0 The next moment, he is lauded colleagues and the public alike for his \u201chard hitting\u201d expose of the witnessed events.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Finkel fabricated much of his story and misrepresented the boys and their situations, resulting in his getting booted from the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we meet a man in Cancun who looks nothing like reporter Mike Finkel but who introduces himself as such; that is, until he\u2019s arrested by the authorities for extradition to the United States for as is discovered, he is in reality Chris Longo, a man wanted for the murder of his wife and three children.<\/p>\n<p>So why is Longo trying to pawn himself off as Finkel?\u00a0 He admires him.\u00a0 He admires his writing.\u00a0 He \u201caspires\u201d to be him.\u00a0 Or is there something else motivating Longo?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2ebsse1o\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11663\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-3-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"TRUE STORY\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-3-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-3-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finkel, humiliated and in hiding, is squirreled away in a cabin with his girlfriend\/fianc\u00e9 Jill when\u00a0 he learns of Longo when a local reporter contacts him for a quote about Longo stealing Finkel\u2019s identity.\u00a0 Could this be the break Finkel needs to be welcomed back into the loving arms of the journalistic community? Or could it give him some insight into himself by speaking with a man who pretends to be him?\u00a0 Taking advantage of the situation, Finkel wrangles a prison meeting with Longo who ultimately agrees to tell Finkel his story &#8211; IF Finkel will teach him how to write.<\/p>\n<p>As time marches on, a friendship develops between the two with Longo sending written missives (complete with illustrations) to Finkel and Finkel absorbing every word.\u00a0 But just how much is truth and how much is fiction?\u00a0 Playing Devil\u2019s Advocate to Finkel\u2019s blind faith in Longo and his ramblings, Jill starts doing her own investigation into Longo\u2019s writings and drawings, driving a wedge between she and Finkel; a wedge that only deepens after her own visit to Longo in prison.\u00a0 No matter what, Finkel believes every word of what Longo has said to be truth to the point he thinks Longo is innocent.\u00a0 After all, who could be a killer and be so kind, so humble, so soft-spoken.\u00a0 And were Longo lying, Finkel knows he is such a great reporter that he would see through any lies.\u00a0 Or would he.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2ebsse1o\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11664\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-2-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"true story - 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-2-400x281.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-2-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-2.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see this story and these individuals played out by James Franco as Chris Longo and Jonah Hill as Michael Finkel is delicious &#8211; particularly when it comes to Franco.\u00a0 As Longo, Franco is hypnotic.\u00a0 The camera captures all the patented Francoisms with his eyes and head tilts, the uncomfortable quiet and calculated pauses &#8211; something Franco fans from his days on \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d know intimately &#8211; but which fuel the character and performance.\u00a0\u00a0 You see the unspoken glee and satisfaction in his eyes or in a sly grin when he knowingly puts one over on Hill&#8217;s Finkel.\u00a0 It is divine.\u00a0\u00a0 And it keeps the audience second-guessing the \u201ctruths\u201d being delivered throughout Longo\u2019s trial.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A big surprise is that Hill plays Finkel as a somewhat egotistical buffoon, blind to what the camera sees as fact and fiction in Longo\u2019s stories.\u00a0 We don\u2019t typically see this from Hill in his dramatic films and it\u2019s a testament to his skills as an actor.\u00a0 There&#8217;s an interesting tacit visual duality\/split screen at play here that director Rupert Goold masterfully elicits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2ebsse1o\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11665\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-4-400x259.jpg\" alt=\"true story - 4\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-4-400x259.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-4-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-4.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Felicity Jones is so under used as Jill, but with one powerhouse scene in jail playing opposite Franco, she electrifies.\u00a0 You see that one scene and you KNOW why Jones is an Academy Award nominee.\u00a0 She commands the room.<\/p>\n<p>Cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi delivers a haunting yet methodical imagery that creates a palpable emotional sense of blurring the lines of truth and fiction.\u00a0 His lens &#8211; and the starkness of lighting &#8211; keeps us at arms length, almost out of the fray, as if trying to give the audience the objectivity and ability to see the truth and machinations of Longo that Finkel should have seen.\u00a0\u00a0 Longo&#8217;s flashbacks are haunting with fragmentation that grows in clarity like a lens coming into focus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-6.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2ebsse1o\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11666\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-6-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"true story - 6\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-6-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-6.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by Rupert Goold based on Michael Finkel\u2019s memoir, what I particularly find engaging about Goold&#8217;s approach to TRUE STORY is the lack of subtext.\u00a0 It\u2019s very black and white.\u00a0 He hits us with straight dialogue (albeit somewhat clunky at times), much like an investigative reporter would do when delivering the facts.\u00a0 The very manner in which he wrote the script provides its own tacit commentary as well as dichotomous texture.\u00a0 Through it all, thanks to Goold&#8217;s straightforward approach and the strength of Franco and Hill, the creepy factor is undeniable which makes one wonder &#8211; who is the creepiest and most to be feared and disdained &#8211; Longo?\u00a0 Or someone like Finkel?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-5.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2ebsse1o\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11667\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-5-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"true story - 5\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-5-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/true-story-5.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And stay for the credits.\u00a0 Some nice epilogue which, for those being exposed to this story for the first time, will blow your mind with a great ironic, and sad, twist.<\/p>\n<p>Written and Directed by Rupert Goold based on Michael Finkel\u2019s memoir.<br \/>\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0 James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what film it is, my attention is immediately drawn by the mere mention of the name \u201cJames Franco\u201d.\u00a0 Then you toss in the fact the film is based on real people and real events and I\u2019m in for long haul.\u00a0 Such is the case with TRUE STORY.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reminiscent of the well known relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[2693,1792,1858,1859,2484,2485,2694,1857],"class_list":["post-11662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews","tag-chris-long","tag-felicity-jones","tag-james-franco","tag-jonah-hill","tag-michael-finkel","tag-new-york-times","tag-rupert-goold","tag-true-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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