Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

This film is an adaptation of John Berendts best selling novel and is directed by Clint Eastwood. The story is based on a series of true events involving an antique dealer named Jim Williams, played by Kevin Spacey. John Kelso, played by John Cusack, is a small time journalist sent down to Savannah to cover one of William’s elaborate Christmas parties for Town and Country magazine. Already we are beginning to see some similarities …

…view this as such an important event because of the fact that during the case before Williams was judged not guilty he told Kelso that he had set up the scene to make it look like Billy shot at him first. The painting is a symbol for the way that Kelso did not tell anyone this and in a way covered it up much like the painting covers the truth of what was originally painted.