It maybe Capote's story, but you'll want to know more about the people around him

Rating: 7/10 (3 December 2006)

Truman Capote goes to Kansas to investigate a murder and becomes involved in the story. His involvement leads to the writing of In Cold Blood which changed the face of fiction.
A beautiful movie. This is a movie that doesn't have any shot that wouldn't look lovely on the wall of a museum. Beautiful shots of the country side that perfectly give a sense of place and are so perfect as to make you think its all unreal.
The performances are perfect, with Philip Seymour Hoffman all but disappearing in to the role of the Capote (which is something the rest of the cast does as well). It was right to give him an Oscar.
As good as the film is, and it is quite good, I turned off the DVD feeling just a bit empty. While the film is certainly Capote's story I wanted to know more about the people around him. I wanted a bigger sense of the communities, both in Kansas and in New York, that this force of literary nature wandered through. The film left me wanting more, not in the way that I wanted to see the story continue, rather more of the story at hand. This is in its way almost too big a story to be told in less than two hours. I think the problem is that the actors have etched such perfect portraits of the people around Capote that you want to get to know them too.
Absolutely worth seeing.