Capote (2005)

You won't be disappointed!

Please don't spend money on this.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row. Even with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it 'Capote' feels like a movie that could have been really good but unfortunately was not that good or memorable as i expected and the whole cast was pretty much disappointing and wasted in a movie that feels like a novel but a bad, boring and mediocre one tho. (0/10)

Coming from somebody who read In Cold Blood, the book based on this movie (Capote) I thought it was well directed in that I found it extremely accurate in terms of story line and what actually occurred in 1959. It was certainly an informative movie as well as an entertaining one. This movie illustrates the relationship Capote had with the two murders and how much his novel meant to him. A lot of the movie highlights how much time and care he took when gathering the information for his novel in order to make sure he got the story right and served both Dick and Perry justice. I would certainly not call this movie boring if that is a concern of yours, I recommend it to anybody, but be aware that it is graphic if that is something you are not comfortable watching. Other than that this movie was a success in my opinion as well as excellently casted and produced.

I still had the notion that it wasn't just a film you saw, you had to have time to reflect and understand it, and maybe that was what didn't fit in for me when I saw it.The movie is good, and the acting very real and surreal at times, I didn't know much about this Truman Capote and that was a mistake, you have to have some knowledge about this character, his life, his journalism and books, otherwise the movie doesn't give you all that you properly would like to know about both the incident, but also about Mr. Capote.The Plot of this film, as real as it may bee, is a long one, I knew it was a drama and Biography but mostly they are spiced up a bit for the movie viewers sake, I don't believe this was, this is the actual events (more or less), and that makes it an interesting movie, but also a long and very describing movie. It is however definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it, but you have to like these kind of Biographies.

Rather than getting carried away by the acting performances, I was disappointed to learn so little about the life of Capote! In this film the 'Cold Blood' incident, be it a key and turning point in his life and career or not, gets in focus to the point of Capote becoming replaceable by any of those (self-) dedicated 'new journalists' who pursue their career by picking up on some crime case, simply because nobody else cares to... (To what extent it is morally justifiable to turn a murder case into a literary art form, and violating the most fundamental journalist ethos of 'stick to the facts' in the process, is another question...) For these reasons, the film should be titled 'Capote in Cold Blood' instead, and leave a chance for subsequent biopics to one day tell the story of 'Capote' (if there is one to tell) - such as: What was his personal background, and what made him ultimately fall victim to drugs? Instead, what we get is nearly a case of self-justice: "Don't kill them before I did my book, but don't wait too long as I might get bored"... All writers, fact or fiction, should be warned to follow this example! A message this film fails to deliver.