PSH is simply amazing

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2006)

This movie so exceeded my expectations that I was and still am simply astonished by how incredible it is, as well as the performance of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The only reason that I can think of that someone wouldn't like the movie is that you do, in my opinion anyway, need to have a decent amount of background knowledge of the novel and movie "In Cold Blood" and know the background story of what happened on that farm in Kansas or it could be harder to appreciate.
The reason being that the back-story is extremely complicated and when I read and studied the book in a college class, we spent over a month discussing mainly Capote's reasons for writing the book in the way he did b/c through research and discussion, you learn Capote's intentions. And again, without knowing this type of information, I could see how someone would either have trouble following the film or more likely simply not appreciate it as much as they would if they knew the very complicated and extremely interesting background surrounding the film. Just my opinion though.