Two extremes met in his mind

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2006)

It's a biographical film about Truman Capote who wrote In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman got the Oscar's for the best actor. He did a great job because he copied Capote's style: the gay character and fashion, high-pitched voice. I saw some movies where Philip Seymour Hoffman appeared, but Capote he acts is completely different from all of the characters he acted before.
This film depicts how Capote got into a horrible murder of a family of 4, which happened in Kansas(USA) in 1959 and he interviewed the local people, including the two killers and finally wrote a novel about it. Capote is said to be the first person to have established non-fiction novels. And, he claimed he was gay in public. It was not common in those days. Capote came over to the killers in the holding cell and prison and talked to them a lot as their friend. Capote had the two feelings for Perry, one of the killers. On the one hand, he wanted to use him to get a story. On the other hand, he had compassion or love over him. Just before the death sentence was executed, these two extremes met in his mind. He visited the prison to talk with them and witnessed the excution. He was traumatized by this experience. So he couldn't finish another book.
I've never read his book, In Cold Blood. So I think I have to read it examing the background of the murder and Capote's bias about the killers.