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Capote (2005)
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We're all movie buffs here, so I don't need to tell you what an amazing actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is. Usually in the background in supporting roles, Hoffman brings all his characters to vibrant, memorable life, from BOOGIE NIGHTS to THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY to COLD MOUNTAIN. With the title role in CAPOTE, Hoffman has the lead role as writer Truman Capote and he absolutely nails it.
Truman Capote is a party-going, c*cktail anecdote-sharing, openly gay New York City writer already famous for his novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" when he reads a New York Times story about the grusome murder the well-off Clutter family in the farming town of Holcomb, Kansas. Intrigued by the flash of violence in an otherwise wholesome small town, Capote immediately sets off for Holcomb with his childhood friend Harper Lee in tow. Lee, who just finished writing "To Kill A Mockingbird," is there partly to act as bodyguard and also to help Capote with his research as he writes an article on the murders for "The New Yorker."
Watching Capote gain the trust of the town's residents is fascinating. He's a master at getting people to open up, and at manipulating his own image to do so. When the killers are finally caught and Capote is permitted to interview them, he feels a connection with Perry Smith, the more sensitive and artistic of the two. In Smith, he sees a man who began life with many of the same problems: an alcoholic parent, the absence of a stable home, the feeling of being an outsider. Yet what separates them seems to be little more than luck.
As Capote works on what he soon realizes will be a book (eventually titled "In Cold Blood"), the Clutter murders and his conflicting feelings for the murderers, particularly Smith, take over his life. This is a fascinating movie.
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