Blue Caprice is a quiet, chilling exploration of the development of a serial killer. In 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo terrorized the DMV community by randomly shooting and killing people that went about their everyday business such as simply pumping gas.
In the film, Malvo has been abandoned by his mother and Muhammad takes him in and treats him as though he is his son. From that point on, Muhammad slowly and methodically molds him into a child killer.
Blue Caprice was one of the rare instances of black actors being given the space to depict complicated characters. Although Tequan Richmond does an impressive job of portraying the vulnerabilities of Malvo…it’s very difficult to feel sympathy for him.