A real insight into Capote

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2006)

It was a book that changed modern non-fiction. Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, made him a star. But the interesting thing is that he never finished another book. Did the conflicts he suffered in writing the book ruin him as a writer? This film paints an illuminating light into that question.
I found it hard to watch as his speech was difficult to understand, but I could see the pain as he explained, "It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he went out the back door and I went out the front. " As someone who grew up near Kansas and was barely a teen when Capote was writing this book, I would have never known him. But, I have to say that I feel I am closer to him than ever having watched Phillip Seymour Hoffman's performance in Capote. He was brilliant.
Of course, let's not forget that this was a Chris Cooper double feature. He played an excellent role here as the DA.