Taking A Look At The Movie Capote

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If you are a fan of literature, or if you are a fan of great movies, or if you are simply interested in watching as many different movies as you can, the movie Capote is an especially great one for you to add to your "to watch" list.

In November of of 1959 (both in real life, and in the movie), a brutal, seemingly inexplicable quadruple murder took place in an otherwise unremarkable town in Kansas, and Truman Capote (who at the time was one of the most well-known writers in America, having published Breakfast at Tiffanys and become friends with every significant celebrity of the time) decided to travel to the town in order to write a story for The New Yorker about the killings and the effect they had on the town. A short time after Capote arrived in the town, however (along with Harper Lee - who Capote had grown up with, and who would soon publish the enduring classic To Kill A Mockingbird), he realized that the story deserved to be more than a blip in The New Yorker; it deserved to be a book.

The movie Capote follows the author (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman - who won a Best Actor Oscar for playing the enigmatic Capote) as he explores the town and explores the story, with the story especially escalating as the killers are caught, and as Capote forms a close bond with one of the two men who killed that innocent and unarmed family in the small town in Kansas.

This movie is certainly remarkable for its story alone - which, in itself, is a masterful depiction of the writing of one of the most significant works in the history of American literature - but also, this movie is remarkable for the cinematography, the directing, and most of all the acting. Even if you are not a fan of literature, you will surely enjoy watching Philip Seymour Hoffman control the screen in an incredibly demanding role; and of course, if you are a fan of literature, you will love watching Capote to see the story of the writing of In Cold Blood - one of the most important works of literature to ever come out of the American landscape.