As it happens this past weekend, I chose to view the biographical film Capote, which featured the Oscar winning performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Its plot dealt with the incidents and events surrounding Capote’s “non-fiction novel,” In Cold Blood. There is also a motion picture based on Capote’s book, and since film is inherently a visual medium, it featured the lyrical, haunting black and white cinematography of Conrad Hall in place of Capote’s moving prose. In truth, as to a biographical film, I preferred Toby Jones’ characterization of Capote—a role I feel he was born to play—in the lesser known … Continue reading Psychopathic Murderers