Capote (2005)

Posted : 3 months ago at Aug 16 16:14

Philip Seymour Hoffman ei onnistu useinkaan pettämään. Tässäkin mies tekee todella vahvan ja vaikuttavan roolityön.

Elokuvaa katsoessa ei oikein osaa päättää, pitääkö Hoffmanin roolihahmosta vai ei. Sellaiset elokuvat ovat aina mielenkiintoisia. Ne, joista ei oikein tiedä.

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago at Nov 29 17:02

''Sometimes when I think of how good my book is going to be, I can't breathe.'' Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers. Philip Seymour Hoffman: Truman Capote Bennet Miller's Capote is a film that shows a great intellect albeit sometimes manipulative and cunning, in the way it captured the essence of Truman Capote, a man who achieved fame and notoriety with most of the fiction he wrote. This film concentrates in the period of his life in which he got obsessed by a notorious murder case of the fifties about the murder of a family in Kansas. Dan Futterman has written the screen play based on the book by Gerald Clarke. The film ...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 2 years, 8 months ago at Mar 26 9:36

I read 'In Cold Blood' for a college paper a few years back, and I loved it. It's one of the best books I ever read, and Truman Capote is an incredibly talented author. And I've seen 'In Cold Blood', the black & white classic film based on the book, and it also ranks amongst my favorite classic films. And even though I was fascinated by this film as it followed Capote's life as he wrote the book that defined his career, and the performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman was simply one of the finest acting performances ever, overall this film was a big disappointment. The story just went on and on with no real start, middle, or end. Instead, it felt like a bunch of 'a-day-in-the-life-of' scenes rather than a biopic about Capote, which is what I wanted to see.

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years, 11 months ago at Dec 22 16:10

This film kind of tore me into two different directions where on one hand I marveled at perhaps one of the most brilliant acting performances I have seen by Philip Seymour Hoffman in his role as Truman Capote, and on the other I restlessly craved for a more engaging storyline.

Without a doubt, Truman Capote's works are of literal genius and gripping beyond what any film could ever capture. And though this fact weighs heavily on my views of the film, I feel that overall, the story did not do Capote's life and work justice.

Rating : 6/10