empty film!

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2006)

Well, the question is....what is in this film? Nothing. The characters are completely shallow, and the film speaks about only one (and not really credible) aspect of Capote's life, which i believe, was much more interesting than this. The infatuation of Capote for this murderer, who was obviously guilty of the killing of four people, is not understandable. The actor who plays Perry Smith is ridiculous, his acting seems to consist on stupid mimics on his face, like blinking with one eye five times in a row, and oh, he is a brilliant drawer, how incredible. Philip Seymour Hoffman is usually a good actor, but he overplays the homosexual character with an unbearable voice and mimics. The things is, nothing in this movie is credible. A convict that supposedly has a great depth (he looks up in the dictionary how hung convicts die; it's time you knew about your fate, man!)but who looks like a perfect creep is something difficult to link to Capote's interest for him. And then, since it's an American movie, we HAVE to see the morbid of the death sentence, the hanging with shaky body and everything, and Capote who is supposedly "in love" with this Perry Smith while he lets him down and does not seem to suffer that much about the forthcoming death of him (when he learns about the verdict via Smith's voice, he just says 'I'm sorry'...). Just the fact that he finds some food for thought in this man we can only have contempt for, is irritating; at least in the way it is narrated. I didn't believe anything of what the director and the actors tried to make the audience feel. I found it was an empty movie that stays in the surface and explores nothing of its characters' personality.