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

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

As I scroll through the other user reviews what I notice is that the ones that disliked the film all claim that it was "boring". That's fair, if you haven't read 'In Cold Blood', I suppose. The first time I watched this, I fell asleep during it because I was just unable to follow. But then I read the book, one that is considered a great piece of American literature. Watching the film a second time was a much different experience. I hung on every word that Capote had to say in wonder and excitement. The way the film depicts Capote's process as he does his work and how he relates to Perry, it's truly fascinating. This film has provided me with further appreciation for the novel 'In Cold Blood' as it reveals insightful details about Capotes point of view regarding the true story. I recommend this film to everyone who has read 'In Cold Blood'. I would also encourage those who found it boring to watch the film again after first reading the novel the film is about.

Watching Philip Seymour Hoffman inhabit the singular character that was Truman Capote is a triumph of art, even if like with a lot of Hoffman, I find an underlying pain tends to dominate."Capote" puts us in the Clutter household in Holcomb, Kansas, early one November morning in 1959. The family has been murdered for no clear reason, frightening the community. In New York City, the celebrated fiction writer Truman Capote reads of the crime and decides he must go there, in search of something he doesn't understand. This will eventually both produce his masterpiece and ruin him, not necessarily in that order."It's the book I was always meant to write," he tells high-society friends between languid puffs of his cigarette. "What have you been up to?""Capote" the film may oversell the idea that the strain and emotional toll it took Capote to write "In Cold Blood" caused him to descend into an alcoholic nullity. But Hoffman's finely-tuned performance does deliver. His voice and manner accurately summon the famous talk-show guest I remember. His eyes alternately suggest aloofness and pain, which is what makes for Capote's tragedy.It seems that Capote is a wonderful one for empathy as something to pull out of his writer's tool box, using it to form a bond with a leery investigator, Alvin Dewey, Jr. (Chris Cooper). But he has more trouble with empathy from the heart, which comes across especially when he meets one of the accused murderers, Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.).Smith and Capote immediately bond, as both are outsiders. But whereas Smith sees a friend, Capote sees a "gold mine," and one in need of mining before the state executioner steps in. Most of what director Bennett Miller and scripter Dan Futterman focus on in the second half is how much of this amounts to a devil's bargain, given the games Capote plays. Capote's lover, Jack Dunphy (Bruce Greenwood) and his childhood pal and researcher, Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) provide the moral conscience from the sidelines.I found them to be wet blankets, especially Greenwood, who seems to be directed to communicate seething ambidirectional jealousy in every scene. For all the gambits and head games Capote played, he was also working on a story that would present Smith and his accomplice, Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino), in as decent a light as two wanton killers ever got.It feels at times like "Capote" overeggs the morality lesson, and its sepulchral pace adds to the weight. But the visual tone is keenly done, especially Adam Kimmel's serene shots of Manitoba doubling for Kansas. Hoffman's Oscar win is well-earned, as he centers a number of powerful scenes showcasing his character at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, schmoozing with the cognoscenti and trying to compose himself for a final farewell with Smith and Hickock.Did Capote really go completely silent in print after "In Cold Blood" as the movie has it? Not if you count his 1980 best-selling collection, "Music For Chameleons." But Futterman's script tells a tale that resonates with the compromises writers make in practicing their craft, and Hoffman's searing humanity carries overtones of classical tragedy."It's the hardest when someone has a notion about you and it's impossible to convince them otherwise," he tells a Clutter friend by way of inveigling some useful information on the family. I have a feeling if Capote was still alive, he'd want use of that same line for Miller and Futterman.Whether it's fact or fiction, "Capote" the film makes a riveting case study. I think Capote, who made a career out of obscuring the two forms, would have appreciated it.

......................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FLPhillip Seymour Hoffman was the kind of actor who, because of his physical appearance and demeanor, rarely was given the opportunity to take on a title role. Here, at last, was a stand out exception to that rule! In Capote, Hoffman was able to show us his true artistic ability. The Result: A well- deserved Oscar as best actor. It is quite a veritable shame that we will never again be able to see him in any new portrayals! CAPOTE, of course, is a true story, on this occasion, set in the 60's, Truman Capote, an author and human being who was truly extremely unique and most out of the ordinary, albeit, at times, highly conflicted …Characteristics that Hoffman very clearly transmits to us, as viewers, in this truly outstanding biopic! (8 Stars)...ENJOY!/DISFRUTELA! Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most [email protected]

What I like most about movies is that you can learn something from (some of) them. Having read the non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood", literary genre which Truman Capote claims to be pioneer, I was curious about this movie. The book describes the true events of how two young Americans met and the brutal homicide they committed against a family in 1959 Kansas; and the movie tells us the story of how that book came to be.What's it about:We are presented to Truman Capote (magisterially played by Philip Seymour Hoffman that deservedly won the Oscar for this performance), showing us the man, what he did, his social circles, his intimacy and motivations. So we get an idea of who he was, when then comes the murder news that lead Capote to his investigation, personally interviewing the captured murderers, going so far as to create a bond of friendship specially with Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.).What's bad:The title is misleading as it is not so much a biography but an episode of Capote's life, namely the making of the book "In Cold Blood". Although the movie establishes well a portrayal of Truman's personality, instead of wasting so much time with long and still shots of plains and buildings and him staring at the horizon, it could give us know the why he be so, is origins, more background on how he came to the literary circle and what more works he published besides the well known "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that resulted on the homonymous movie starling Audrey Hepburn. Moreover, it is known that Truman maintained a long-term homosexual relationship with the also novelist Jack Dunphy (Bruce Greenwood), but that idea is only insinuated never shown directly if they were more than really close friends.What's good:Proclaiming to be a biography it shows little, but something is better than nothing. At first I was going to rate this movie 6/10, but now that I've given it some thought I see the genie behind. The investigation and the friendship with Perry were events that deeply marked Capote for the rest of his life, so much that one can say that he sacrificed himself (voluntarily or not) in order to leave us a legacy (as questionable as it may be), and I believe Hoffman did it also with this role. Good directing, sets, color, shots, costumes and all the cast are at the highest level marvelously complementing this unhurriedly told story that being a sad one, does not try to be sentimentalist, and that I congratulate.Worth seeing. 7/10.22/04/2016R.I.P., Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014). Respect.