In 2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman starred in the biographical film Capote, and his award winning performance in this very well made movie launched him into the next level of actorhood, a formidable professional, a force to be reckoned with, a sure fire performance regardless of surrounding circumstances, immensely reliable and likeable, even when playing bastards and straight up evil doers. It really helps that his fantastic central performance as writer Truman Capote is actually enveloped by a wonderfully made film, richly detailed and confident in its pacing and technique, with the movie itself getting some award consideration, which makes Capote really the total package. And it's the right kind of biographical film, the one that eschews simply going through the "greatest hits," so to speak, and instead focuses in a single period in a person's life, showing how that one part of their existence greatly effected the rest of their lives. And here, the portion of Truman Capote's life that involved becoming very personal and close with a convicted murderer and using their friendship as a way to make a well regarded and highly successful nonfiction book is probably the most telling about the man, the most informative about who he was and what he was after. Capote is a fantastic film, very moody and introspective and loaded with great actors doing what they do best, and it's definitely worth checking out.
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