#61: Capote (2005) July 16, 2007
Posted by badblokebob in : Drama, 2000s, 4 stars, true stories, 2007, Biography , trackback2005 | Bennett Miller | 109 mins | DVD | 15 / R
It is, unsurprisingly, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar-winning lead performance that dominates this movie. While the title might suggest a biopic, the film actually concentrates on the five year period in which Truman Capote researched and wrote his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. While this process forms the structure of the plot, the title gives away what the movie is actually ‘about’ — in and around the mechanics of the murder investigation and Capote’s work process, it’s the character of the man, and how it’s affected, that is really revealed to the viewer (in a subtler way than my blatant highlighting of it here would suggest).
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