One of the best so far this year

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2006)

It's of course Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie. Brilliant isn't enough. There is some overplaying in some places, but still, this interpretation is to be remembered.
Capote is the New York party prince in the beginning, and he remains so in the end, but with a very dark shadow around him. He has met real life and the most important line in the script, which changes him completely, is the girl who says about a boy, that he has never been into anything terrible before. That's the key to "In Cold Blood" and that's what makes Capote interested; the real life, which is infected by evil. And he makes a journey into that real evil, which he hasn't known much about before. Or has he? Much to think about here. Is life stronger than art? Definitely, according to this movie.