capote

Movie: Capote

There was this writer from USA, from the time of the early XIX century, who heard about a murder of an American family and the accused was a Hispanic man who claimed to be innocent.

Throughout his research, he tried to have a private interview with the sentenced, but it seems to be difficult because all the Medias (newspaper reporters, radios, etc.) were above the same case.

Capote listened carefully to all the interviews and conclusions of everyone, but at the end he thought that all the information could be manipulated by different social groups. As always

Finally, he had the opportunity to meet with this person several times.

And every time he listened to him, he felt his head with a lot of ideas of what really happened.  Even so, this person didn´t said it directly, he wanted to get his own verdict. Sometimes, he thought he was guilty, some others he thought he was innocent.

In the meantime, he had a lot to write about, but…. he was his own critic for this book.

Sometimes, he thought that not only wanted to write an interesting article, and become a “bestseller”, but also in the background, he wanted to solve the case himself.

Finally, he finished the book.  And it surely got a prize.

He was really proud of his work….but... in his mind was the same though: does he really deserve the death penalty?

He had to watch it with his own eyes.  And he did.

He witnessed the death of the condemned.  He thought it was harder than he could imagine.  Because Capote came to the conclusion that he… was not guilty.

I think the movie was very different of what I used to.  You can say it was good if you consider  how it develops the plot, the characters, the setting, etc. but it was hard to understand. Mostly at the beginning.

The movie was a nonfiction; the drama was very very good but the development was a little slow for my taste.

It makes you think sometimes, like they rounded much all the content, and then back to the beginning.  The principal character, Capote, represents a very thin, not very masculine, strange and methodical person.  Someone I would not like to be related. But in the other hand, Capote is a very meticulous man, who really wanted to discover the truth. For him, it was, not just the work of writing a book with a good topic, it was more than that.

At school, we could not finish watching the movie, but to my good luck, my parents had saved it in a Drawer. So I could see the end. I was curious!

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