I think my point here has been a bit misconstrued: I don't object to this film because of my personal feelings about John, I object to it simply because it
sounds like a bad movie. The single interesting fact about Chapman's life (granted I'm no expert here) is the fact that he shot John; apart from that, the man's a sad nonentity. There's no interesting dramatic material there. If he'd shot, say me [all right, shut up you in the back], no one would have dreamed of making a movie about him. In my experience, these what-goes-on-in-the-mind-of-a-killer movies consist of either journalistic moralizing or pseudo romantic melodrama; they're bad drama that merely exploits pathos. That bit about "Jude," for example, suggests a desperately amateurish screenwriter.
For what it's worth, you probably couldn't drag me to a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald, either (and you'd have to knock me out cold if Oliver Stone directs). This sort of thing never interests me.
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