Mimicry is not enough

Rating: Null/10 (24 February 2006)

Why does anyone praise this awful film? Mimicry is a skill, but easy to do, with the available photos,voice recordings,news photo-ops,etc. Truman Capote was plump, effeminate,obnoxious.ego-overfilled, arrogant,an alcoholic, and vicious. He ultimately alienated the celebrities he fought so hard to be with. The film glosses over some of these, while presenting a story of a man incapable of change, which could be good if the man had not been, as Capote was, a pathetic loser. So why was it filmed, and why the praise for PS Hoffman? What is achieved by portraying a man who should have been sent on an automated rocket to Mars? Surely a biopic on a more desirable person could have been done. Speedhumps