"And one more for the road" Hic.

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2006)

Aside from the fact that Hoffman(Capote)can easily win the Best Actor Oscar and rightly so, the film was dreadful. One of the slowest moving movies I ever saw. And there was so much alcohol consumption in it, which, by the way did eventually kill Truman Capote, I nearly staggered out of the lobby into the street.
With the discovery of DNA, I am a death penalty advocate. Heck, I was that way even before DNA but only if there was absolutely no question as to the guilt of the defendant. Now, regarding this film,it turns out that Mr. Capote takes a real shine to one of the two mass murderers of the Clutter family in a small Kansas town in Nov.1959. Capote had just come off a sterling triumph by penning "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and while living off its proceeds, one day he spies a newspaper article about the mass murder, cuts it out and away he goes to write a book about it. The tome was not going to be ordinary but the cat's meow--the best fiction-non fiction book of all time and he gets a slap on the back of encouragment from his friend Harper Lee, the authoress of "To Kill A Mockingbird."
And so Truman goes to Kansas on several fact finding missions, missions designed to give him the tools for the job, and by golly if he doesn't become infatuated with one of the condemned, Perry Smith. It's interesting to analyze the basis for this odd situation. I came up with the following: 1. Capote was homosexual and found Smith his type of partner. 2. Capote wanted to strongly advocate against the death penalty. 3. Capote's interest was merely self-serving to earn mucho bucks from
two guys on death row 4. Capote liked hanging around Kansas because of fondness for seeing
wheat and corn stalks 5. Capote was so liberal that he didn't mind springing two killers to
terrorize the rest of us
I am positive that the truth lies(pardon the pun)in the midst of the above 5 hypotheses however, after being tortured by this movie for 98 minutes, as Rhett told Scarlett, "I don't give a damn." All I know is that Mr. Hoffman, as Capote, did a remarkable job and I went home before going entirely mad.