Manipulation of a writer to have matter for a new reality novel.

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2006)

Truman Capote, a newspaper's writer, who has also published successful novels (particularly "Breakfast at Tiffany's", learns one day that an horrible crime has been perpetuated in a remote farm in Kansas. Capote decides that this macabre news item must give to him the opportunity of a new novel that he wants to be written on a very innovative style near reality. For that, he goes to encounter the young murderers in the Kansas prison where they are kept before their judgment. Capote develops special relations with one of these two murderers, Perry Smith, which seems to be friendship in order to conquer his thrust and accumulate matter for his novel. But this relation is, in fact, full of duplicity, lies and shams, for the two parties. And Capote will pursue that relation with Perry until his execution to have final end to his work. This movie reveals a new promising and talented director and the performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote is very impressive. Nevertheless the movie leaves a sentiment of discomfort about the character of Capote and about his creative process that sacrifice all human sentiments for the benefit of his own creation.