Daniel Henninger meditates on Capote, the movie

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Walking moments later into torrents of cold rain pouring down on Capote's once-fabulous Manhattan, it seemed to me that the movie's three filmmakers--actor Hoffman, director Bennett Miller, writer Dan Futterman (all born in 1967)--had managed to evoke something more relevant to the country's condition now than merely the unusual personality of Truman Capote.
This is not a Hollywood message movie like George Clooney's Edward R. Murrow film, waving warnings about McCarthyism. One can take from "Capote" what one wishes, and what I took away was how far the distance was in 1959 from New York's Upper East Side to Kansas. More than 40 years later that distance remains, defined almost every day of the week by our national politics.

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Topic - Daniel Henninger meditates on Capote, the movie - clarkjohnsen 07:03:10 11/05/05 (0)

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