How Truman Capote wrote IN COLD BLOOD

Rating: 9/10 (1 October 2005)

This is not a full biography of the very flamboyant authors life,rather it tells of the 6 years it took him to write the story of 2 young men who killed an entire family in Kansas. in 1959.
Capote was a reporter for the New Yorker magazine & thought there may have been a human interest story.
The film concentrates on the relationship with one of the killers, & the devastating affect it had om Capote's life. The film is well written directed & well made.
The most important reason to see this film is because of the actor PHILIP SEYMOUR Hoffman who not only portrays him, HE BECOMES HIM.
I am not the only one predicting the following.
Next March at the Kodak Theatre Mr Hoffman will receive the Oscar as outstanding male actor.
There are no ifs ands or buts on this, He is that great.
It may also get other nominations as well.
My only gripe is one I have in many new films, that is the sound, I & most others had trouble in making out some dialogue when the actors spoke very low. They use this Dolby sound system forgetting that most people do not have perfect hearing.
If you wish to see a superb performance see this, OH it has an R rating, I do not see why, There was no nudity, no sex, you do see some fairly fast pictures of the murder scene (in black & white), hardly any objectionable language, This should have been at most a PG 13 film.
my rating is *** 1/2 (0ut of 4*) 95 points (out of 100) IMDb 9