This is the story of how the celebrated and somewhat notorious writer Truman Capote was fascinated and became obsessed by the brutal murder of a whole family in a deserted Kansas Farmhouse that became his most successful book ever, the sensational ‘In Cold Blood’. This is THE role that the brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman was born to play, and he is a real tour de force winning the Best Actor Oscar and almost every other major acting award of the year. Hoffman resplendent captures the essence of Capote who was also one of the most prominently out-in-your-face homosexuals of his generation and even though he later became something of a parody of himself, was something of a trail blazer for gay men who just ignored society’s inbred homophobia.With a brilliant script by actor/writer Dan Futterman that garnered an Oscar Nomination, this is movie making at its very best, and was certainly in my Top Ten for that year.
P.S. Apart from Mr. Hoffman who fills the screen, there is the mesmerizing Clifton Collins Jnr playing Perry Smith one of the accused who I would have let get away with murder if I was on that Jury.
Labels: 2005, dramatized real-life, gay, history, literature, Oscar Winner, thriller
