Not Capote, it is just the making of 'in cold blood-the nonfiction novel'

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2006)

Capote. The movie named thus, should have shown a bit of Truman Capote, rather than a version that could have been titled "In cold blood part 2", Truman Capote is known to have led a colorful life, with his effeminate mannerisms to his bragging to his famous movie star friends and of course all of that stemming forth from an abandoned childhood. Even after IN cold blood, Capote's struggle to let go of the four years that the book sapped him off, and his vain attempt to get back to writing --all of these would have been a movie that could have aptly been called CAPOTE. That is what a biography would really encase. A look at the the person, on circumstances that made him the way he was, or his struggles that changed him as a person..and him before and after (maybe) What Bennet Miller's CApote has is 'THe making of In Cold blood' yes CApote did get very affected by the research and it did alter his life, but does the audience know what he was before (apart from the brief party scenes) and then what happened to him till he died in 1984. Philip Seymour Hoffman is brilliant in his depiction, but i think he could have been used to show Capote for Capote and not for 'The making of the non fiction novel IN COLD BLOOD'.