When his hometown author friend Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock) asks him how he gets his New York society friends to open up to him, Truman Capote (Toby Jones) replies that he figures out what they want and gives it to them--comfort, confidence, warmth.
He doesn't skip a beat. In the mind of this great 20th century American author, it is both natural and right to shake from the trees around him the fruit that feeds his novels. The force he applies to these trees is empathy or the illusion of empathy. This is the initial portrait of Capote created by the 1996 Warner Independent Pictures release Infamous written and produced by Doug McGrath.
Gifted with an insight into the psychology of human desire and longing, Capote plays people. He lies, pretends, exaggerates, does whatever he has to do to get inside the minds of the people who interest him. Watching this film, I found myself wondering when he was being real and when he was not. (more)
He doesn't skip a beat. In the mind of this great 20th century American author, it is both natural and right to shake from the trees around him the fruit that feeds his novels. The force he applies to these trees is empathy or the illusion of empathy. This is the initial portrait of Capote created by the 1996 Warner Independent Pictures release Infamous written and produced by Doug McGrath.
Gifted with an insight into the psychology of human desire and longing, Capote plays people. He lies, pretends, exaggerates, does whatever he has to do to get inside the minds of the people who interest him. Watching this film, I found myself wondering when he was being real and when he was not. (more)
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I think that I have a crush on Sandra Bullock.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's infatuation.
How was she as Harper Lee?
I cannot imagine her killing a mockingbird. Truman Capote could.
She was a fabulous Harper Lee. She stole the show. She was stable, honest, and bright, and when she spoke she was lyrical.
ReplyDeleteIs playing people for personal gain OK, even if you give them what they want and need?
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's right. Playing people is playing people. Don't others always do it for personal gain, always for some sort of advatnage?
In this movie, Capote fits in with all his friends because they are all the same. But are any of those relationships real? It's hard to tell from the film.
Based on the movie, Capote's only real relationship, it seems, was with Harper Lee. Perhaps that's because she wasn't part of his circle of phonies.
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