Capote

Philip Seymour Hoffman. Yes I do realize that the first sentence was just some actor's name. Philip Seymour Hoffman . There it was again, I'm not sure that it is truly a sentence, but this is a blog, so sue me. Forget the story, because it's very forgettable. This is a film created around a character and a perfomance that meets the challenge. Hoffman playes Capote, a famous aautor I guess, mostly because he says so in the movie. He hangs out with Harper Lee quite a little bit, I know her from To Kill A Mockingbird, that's cool I guess. I could tell you some of the details, like how Capote befriends a murder suspect in the case he is investigating for his next novel. Or I could tell you about the relationship that developes between Capote and the one of the other character. I could tell you that Capote is a homosexual, but you probably already knew that, or figured it out from the previews. I can't say I really enjoyed the film, and for the most part there wasn't really anything of substance to follow. But I can appreciate Hoffman's performance. This is one of those roles where the actor seems to dissappear, and you wonder what he was like between takes or after shooting each day. How can someone so completely take on a different character without becoming that person at least a little bit?