Contradiction and choice

Estevan 2022-03-23 09:01:45

I watched some of TC's works, Breakfast at Tiffany's&Summer Crossing, two very detailed.
In cold blood is a completely different world and story, real, cold, tactile, and finally, contradictory.
Events, inferences, feelings, and relationships are all entangled with the attraction of a perceptual instinct and the cruelty of facts, and it has become a deep contradiction. Out.
The tone of the movie itself is not outstanding. It is quite satisfactory, that is, the character presentation and details are given in place. Basically, such a dark subject can pull me in and see the shaking of hands. It is still full of weight.
Capote struggled rationally and emotionally for many years, which was due to his own background; there was also the fact that he pursued fame and fortune in that era, which weakened his rational judgment and strengthened his colleagues because of his pursuit. The emotional involvement with Perry leads to the final abandonment. Giving up is the most difficult hurdle for him emotionally, but it is the ultimate choice for him to pursue fame and fortune (I don't think he has much sense of justice, from the very beginning, when he visited the police, he said that he didn't care whether the murderer was on the case or not. ).
He may subconsciously despise his choice, or it is his cruelty that makes Perry and Dick, because of him, once went from depression to hope, to despair, to hope, to complete despair. This kind of fiddling with other people's lives between the palms of his hands brought great pain to Capote in essence, and he took it as an insurmountable depression, contradiction, and even depression.
And such a time has indeed affected his life for the next 20 years.

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Capote quotes

  • Perry Smith: I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

  • [last lines]

    Truman Capote: And there wasn't anything I could have done to save them.

    Nelle Harper Lee: Maybe not. But the fact is, you didn't want to.