Unlike the murders, Capote is clean and without flaw

Rating: 10/10 (24 October 2005)

Perfect editing, perfect acting, without flaw.
Just a girl in high school myself, I read In Cold Blood as it came off the pages of the New Yorker. I used to be scared to sleep at night for fear of an intruder and a shotgun blast. Chilling. I actually censored my eyes during the re-enactment of the Clutter killings at the end of this film.
The momentary screen shots of the flat barren Kansas plain were beautiful to look at yet so lonely and stark.
As for Capote himself, it was as if he was executed along with Perry- just not by hanging, but by alcohol.
I kept wanting to see Harper Lee get more recognition but luckily we all knew what became of her book/movie. It was so sad to view Truman's "jealousy" over her stardom. That long cigarette ash dangling and drunken slur...like watching a hanging.
A film all about flaw but with none of its own.