Hoffman and Capote

Brionna 2022-04-23 07:01:47

In hindsight, I saw the news of Hoffman's sudden death. At that time, I happened to watch "Capote", but only part of "Master". He even matched Max's animation to my favorite clay animation "Mary & Max". Most of his photos on Yinbaidu

are old, but if you look closely, he is only 46 years old (he looks more young than these life photos in the recent "Hunger Games 2") I

watched a lot during the holidays. Many films, maybe not Hoffman's death, I can't think of writing my thoughts on these films here. Of course, this is a later story. I don't


talk about the evaluation of historical prototypes. There are many photos left by Capote. All of them raised their chin slightly and looked down at the camera with their eyes. Hoffman at least performed the self-contempt in the photo, especially in the scene where he walked the red carpet in the movie, where countless flashes of light flashed in front of the camera. In the midst of the crowd's applause and envy and hatred, this gesture was clearly and emphasized magnified. Even if his thick spectacles reflect light so that he can't see his eyes. It's the only interpretation that made me uncomfortable in the entire viewing process. While most of the emotion conveyed in his eyes throughout the play can be described with derogatory adjectives, it's strange that this kind of stuff doesn't disgust me most of the time - maybe conceit and contempt are the prerogative of geniuses .

Many people who have seen it think that cold blood not only refers to the murderer who brutally murdered a family of four, but also refers to the author Capote who recorded these records calmly and utilitarianly. He thinks that in the genius works created by the writer, the truth may be worth it. Suspicion and the absence of humanity and morality are unquestionable. But I feel that in most people, or at least a small number of people, there is indeed a human indifference. So am I myself. I would find Hoffman's rendition simple and complex: so simple that I think, yes, as the plot progresses, Capote's eyes and actions are indeed, and naturally should be; but also so complex that I can't use my Can use language to describe or infer the mental process behind the choices he makes at each point in the story. You see, the same kind is so simple and complex that they can understand each other, but it is difficult for outsiders to understand.

Actually, from my personal point of view, I don't think that the sensitive murderer or Capote is cold-blooded, and I even think that maybe the movie still glorifies these two people to a certain extent. If Capote is really cold-blooded, he shouldn't cry so much that he can't control himself before hanging in the movie, and he shouldn't have so much unbearable and struggling in his eyes, and even in the end, he is bound by the guilt in his heart, and he is guilty of guilt Zuo's struggles and self-defense are overwhelmed by the distress brought about by this constant contradiction. Of course, we all know the final ending of Capote himself, but this does not rule out that the script and actors, including history, add or glorify Capote's imagination. Whether writing this book broke Capote's life, and what the truth is like, no one knows.

As for the murderer, there was too much emotion in his eyes. Moreover, the words of childhood and family members vaguely mentioned in the movie also helped him to make various explanations everywhere. In short, cold-blooded killers kill for no reason, but the killer in this case may have too many reasons.



As a digression, I really liked Jackpot's boyfriend Jack in the movie, but I really disliked his girlfriend, the writer of To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the movie, every time I saw Capote and the murderer talking face to face in a small prison cell, watching Capote concoct all kinds of lies with great sincerity, I was worried about the emotion in the eyes of the murderer on the opposite side. Will see through the lie and suddenly burst out with cold malice, and then strangle or slit Capote's throat.

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Extended Reading

Capote quotes

  • Truman Capote: On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life, and and the life of those two men - the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night.

  • Truman Capote: [to Perry Smith] We're not so different as you might think.