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 Given that "Capote" sets out to attack its subject for an act of creative betrayal, it's something of a problem that the film itself so blatantly plays with the truth. As William Shawn's sons have protested, the film's depiction of their father is completely imaginary (he didn't provide photographers, didn't arrange the reading, felt squeamish about the book); more important than that, Capote did not hire lawyers for Perry and Smith. I don't know much about Harper Lee, but I find it hard to believe that she was as entirely angelic as this film requires her to be - requires, in order to recast a passage of history into a morality tale. It's fair enough to do this, in general: any creation imposes a frame on its subject, and framing history will direct the way it is viewed; but I was uncomfortable with the mixture here of distortion and moralization. The film-makers choose to show us nothing of the slaughtered family: that's a big point for Perry, who is left as the story's chief victim, and thus a point against Capote. But the killers performed a truly disgusting, diabolical act (I think it is necessary to make this obvious point), and the idea that Capote should somehow have tried to save them is one that the film needs quite a lot of creative betrayal to push through.
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This was an excellent movie. It was not as I expected. I did not read the reviews prior to going to see the movie and was pleasantly surprised. The story underlying "In Cold" was...all I can say is that I would highly recommended it.
I rented this movie because the movie I wanted to watch was out. This turned out to be a totally different movie then I thought it was going to be. Capote is about the famous author ("Breakfast at Tiffany's),Truman Capote and how he got the idea to write the book "In Cold Blood", about a real life killing in Kansas of a farm family of four and how he went about the process of writing it. He is very manipulative and selfish. He befriends the sheriff's department all the way to the actual men accused of this gruesome crime (he bribed the prison warden)all so he could write his book. Its a good movie and I found it highly entertaining and Philip Seymour Hoffman did an excellent job as usual. This book ends up consuming him and its the last book he ever wrote. The movie hooks you in the beginning and keeps you entralled until the end. I would recommend watching this movie. 
Booooooooooring. It starts off rather interesting, then about half way through, I started going, "And? So what?"
