CUTURAL OPPORTUNITY- The movie Capote

For this week’s cultural opportunity I decided to watch the movie Capote thanks to Ms. Stephanie for loaning her dvd out. The movie was about a writer from New York who goes to Holcomb, Kansas to write a book on the killing of a wealthy farmer and his family. The author actually name was Truman Capote he was a white guy that wore big glasses and he had a very soft feminine voice. So I thought that maybe he was homosexual which he was. In the movie Capote goes to Kansas to get more research for his book. When the actually killers get caught they were sentenced to death Capote tried to get them a new lawyer so they could stay alive because he then was going to die he wouldn’t get the information he need from for his book which I thought was selfish on his part because he was keeping trying to help keep them alive for his book. But as the movie goes on and Capote meets with the killers he starts to care about Perry I think because they mother both died and they had something in common. Even Capote boyfriend Jack thought he was in love with Perry because he and Perry would send letters to each other when Capote was back East. I also notice that Capote did have feeling because when he wasn’t in Kansas he was writing and promoting his book he even named it “In Cold Blood” but when he goes back to see Perry he would lie about the book telling Perry he didn’t even start the book I think he didn’t want to hurt his feelings. During the movie I started to feel just like Capote because he got to know these killers and after awhile Capote didn’t want them to die because they was his friends now and I felt that same way too. When it was getting ready for them to get hanged I had to fast forward because I had great deal of emotions about it I have never done that before not even when African American get lynched I just couldn’t bear watching Perry get hanged. After their death Capote spent 4 years writing the book. He died in 1984 to Alcoholism I think that experience drove him to drink his life away though the book made him the most famous writer in America it also was the last book he would ever finish. After watching this movie I am very interested to learn more about Ian's movement.