The title of the film should be...

Rating: 8/10 (23 October 2005)

The film does an excellent job, as of course does its lead actor, in portraying a snapshot of time in the life of Truman Capote. Additionally, it cleverly allows the viewer to witness a momentous time in the writer's life while getting glimpses of his potentially true characteristics. One can see at this pinnacle time in his career, as the film implies, how the events he chose to pursue created the man that most people know as Capote.
All the same, I feel that a biography the film was not. It's not that I wanted to see a biography--I just think the film's title doesn't do the overall topic justice. I may have opted for a title more on the head like, The Deceptor, or The Deception of Truman Capote; something that addressed the characteristics of the man and of the focus of the film. (I know Deceptor isn't a word - just an idea).