Now that I've seen it, I could almost kick myself for not going to the theatre to watch it when it came out a couple of years ago.
I say almost, because there's some good featurettes included with the DVD.
One of the reasons why I've been so reluctant to watch Capote is because I'm not a huge Truman Capote fan in the first place.
The other related reason is because I didn't really want to watch a biography of him. I have to be in the right mood to watch a biography type film, even if it is a fictional account.
There was a third reason actually, and that had to do with the fact that I wasn't keen on watching a psychological murder drama. Sometimes I like those types of films; but again, I have to really be in the mood.
When it comes to that type of subject matter, I prefer to read a book, so that I can put it down when it gets too gripping.
Perhaps, everything was clicking right and I was in the mood, because although the film had elements of everything I wasn't too keen on watching at the moment, I came away feeling that I had just peeked inside the mind and life of a talented and disturbed author at a time when he was working on what's been regarded as his masterpiece work, ("In Cold Blood").
I knew, before sitting down to watch Capote that Philip Seymour Hoffman would be good in the role of Truman Capote and I knew that he had won numerous awards, including an Oscar for his performance; but I hadn't realized just how brilliantly a portrayal he had done. As far as I could tell, Hoffman didn't mimic Capote; he just was Capote – he brought him back to life, so to speak.
That's just one performance though. The entire cast and crew from top to bottom created this incredibly rich story about a man who set out to write the ultimate story and the lengths he went to in order to achieve his goal.
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- Another Look at Capote -- 'Infamous' Reviewed
- In Memoriam: Truman Capote
