morally ambiguous theme

Rating: Null/10 (7 September 2008)

MAY CNTAIN SPOILERS
Even when I read “In Cold Blood” years back and again when I saw the film "Capote” recently I am intrigued by one aspect. In such themes there appears to be a romantic attraction to the perpetrator of a heinous crime. There I fail to understand why nobody has a romantic attraction to the victims. What is so different in this crime from other heinous crimes? Two young criminals enter a lonely house and try to steal and then massacred the whole family and were caught and convicted by the law of the land. May be they had disturbed childhood but every disturbed child do not become criminals in the end. Capote himself had disturbed childhood but became a celebrated author. Was this the reason for the sympathy with the perpetrators. Was the attraction for Capote to one of the perpetrators the latter’s handsomeness? Besides who is the manipulator? Was Smith trying to get into the good books of celebrated author to get good lawyers or was the author trying to get full story for his book? I am also reminded of the film “Dead Man walking”. Such themes always are morally ambiguous.
I did not discuss here “capote” the film