The Truman Show
A fine movie well worth seeing (and rightly deserving of Oscar consideration) is "Capote."
The fascinating -- and frequently unsettling -- film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, who deftly captures the title character's trademark quirks and eccentricities without slipping into caricature.
"Capote" chronicles the research and writing of Truman Capote's landmark nonfictional novel "In Cold Blood." Particularly discomfitting is Capote's relationship with the two killers who murdered an entire Kansas family in 1959. Hoffman's Capote is alternately cold, compassionate, funny, cold, arrogant, insecure, charming, deceiving, sympathetic and manipulative. In one scene you chuckle; in the very next, your skin crawls.
No, this is not the feel-good feature of the season. But it's a damned good piece of movienaking.
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman rules!!!! When it comes to complex, conflicted, quirky charcters, there's no one close, except for maybe Robert Downey Jr. Although he ends up stealing the show when he's featured in supporting roles, if you're a PSH fan, you have to check out his other lead roles like "Owning Mahoney" and "Love Liza". Thanks for the Copote review.
Posted on November 29, 2005 9:35 AM