Rich Twin Poor Twin's View on the Movie

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2005)

This is a Richtwinpoortwin(.)com post on the movie.
We recently went to a movie in NYC with some friends and watched the limited release film - Capote. We were going to watch Syriana but many of us didn't like George Clooney and the tickets for the hour we wanted to watch the movie was sold out. So we went to see Capote. The theater that we went to was really small. There were like 5 columns of seats on each side of the screen. My twin and I were like "What the hell did we get ourselves into?" after the first 5 minutes into the movie. It was like in a twilight zone - in a crappy theater with lots of other people watching this mess and the others are like pretending to like it. My twin turned to me and asked - "Are we really watching this? Are these people for real? Can we get our money back?" Anyway, we did sit through the movie; we saw worse movies than this one - as in more boring. And actually I'm glad we sat through it.
Capote is a movie about the man Capote who wrote "In Cold Blood" in a time where American writers were treated as celebrities with fame, fortune, respect, and praise. Now the only real thing going for Capote, as what my twin and I pointed out was that he had 1 thing no one else had. And that was Confidence which overshadowed any obvious flaws the man had. When he spoke, people listened. When he had an idea, he brought it into reality simply through his confidence in himself and his abilities. "I have a 94% recall," was his catch phrase to impress others and boost about himself in an amusing way. The obvious flaws we see from this Capote is that 1. He has a really weak speaking voice - he sounds like a woman - it was annoying and almost unbearable.
2. He was openly a homo - at a time when gays were bashed and forbidden to come forth.
3. He was very conceited, greedy, uncaring for others, and a liar - he did not care about other's work even his friends' and put down their works - in his words: "I don't see what all the fuss is all about."
4. He had a big drinking and smoking problem which ultimately killed him.
But what made everyone stay in that theater that night, what made the people in the movie listen to him whenever he spoke, what made him the greatest and most famous American writer, and why there is a movie on his guy, was one thing - it was how blatantly confident he was in himself and in his skills and abilities to get what he wanted into his reality. However, in the end what he brought into reality cost more than what he had to gain.
It is also true in real life to an extent - where confidence can bring certainty and into reality some things that you want - in business, school, games, life. However, there is something even more powerful than confidence. We will share that in a future article and you can decide for yourself.