Humanization of Cold Blood Killers

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2007)

On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of "no witness", the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.
The brutal and stupid murder of the four members of this family in Kansas is the subject of other good movies, but in none of them there is such a humanization of the cold blood killers. I have never seen the weird Truman Capote or read his book, but it seems that the interpretation of Philip Seymour Hoffman is perfect based on many reviews. In spite of that, I found the image of this American writer presented in this boring low-paced overrated movie of a despicable, unpleasant, manipulative, unstable, substances addicted homosexual, capable of defending a criminal for his self-profit. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Capote"