Not long ago I used the book (In Cold Blood) on which this movie is based as a text in my teaching, and I was curious.
I’m not one, I hope, to say in a knee jerk way that a movie isn’t as good as the book. I think of movies made from books as being two separate things to be viewed and enjoyed on their own merits. The movie I found engrossing, and the performance of Capote’s character by Philip Seymour Hoffman especially so. However, the character of Perry and of Dick (though the latter doesn’t come through as being as important) don’t come across with the power they do in the book, and the Perry character is at the center of the book’s energy. The movie ends up “telling” the way Capote exploited Perry where the book “shows” it.
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