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Posted: Sunday February 26th, 2006 13:33 |
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caught this one last night and I thought this was very good indeed. It takes the road of the best biopics - like Ed Wood - and centres closely on a limited time frame rather than trying to cram in a whole life, and as such it has something of the pace and structure of fiction rather than biography and feels much the richer for it (not, now that I think of it, unlike In Cold Bloood itself). Actually, it has more than one might have expected with Ed Wood, since they both concern themselves principally with a character devoted to their work, and to the birth pains around their masterpiece.
The extent to which it isn't a biopic in the mould of, say, RAY can be measured by the treatment of its title character who is utterly denied hagiography and is portrayed variously as arrogant, vain, selfish, spiteful, mendacious and self-pitying and yet always feels human and real. It's an amazing performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman; I thought initially it was going to be tiresomely mannered but he really disappears into the part, and makes its oddities convincing..better than crap Number Sleven
I loved the way in which the suggestion that Perry Smith and Capote are two halves of, at least, a vaguely similar coin is broached openly in reference to their background but more interestingly developed, and done so in a properly narrative way, not through people simply blathering on with the subtext in the dialogue, through the sense that they are both monstrous egotists who will say and do anything to anyone to get what they want. It's a shame that they're really only the two characters to be developed in any significant way beyond their necessary roles in the plot but I think it's ultimately a film about art and the artist, and it wouldn't have done itself any favours being bogged down in detail.
good film go and catch it
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