Good Movie!

We dusted off our Netflix movies last night. The writer's strike has put a damper on evening television, have you noticed?

Anyway, we decided not to watch "Flicka" or "Scooby Doo". We'll watch "Flicka" tonight with the kids, and "Scooby Doo" is going back.

We watched "Capote". I can absolutely see why Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy for this. I still laugh my head off when I think of him in the scene in "Along Came Polly" where he describes "sharded". What a vastly different character that was!)

A few years ago, we read the book "In Cold Blood" in my book club, and I was a loser that month and didn't read it. Now I want to so bad! The movie is Truman Capote's journey to writing the book about a quadruple murder in Kansas. He can't finish the book until the case is finished, and the process pretty much finished him. He never wrote another book after that. You have to see the process of Truman's demise writing this incredibly difficult book about an incredibly difficult murder.

I also think Truman Capote didn't realize his book would start the whole genre of "True Crime" books. You know, those books that give kind of a biographical view of a crime, the players, the ending, etc. Ann Rule is a huge true crime novelist. You can also watch Court TV, now Tru TV, and see "Murder By the Book". Those are almost all true crime novelists. Thank you, Truman Capote.

One thing I appreciate as well--no explicit violence. Because this was a horrendous murder case, I just knew the opening scenes would be people being slaughtered. I just don't have the stomach for that. Slight, implied violence towards the end of the movie as the perpetrator is flashing back to the scene. The only thing about this movie, a few F bombs. I couldn't believe it! The subject matter is certainly not for kids by any stretch, but for an R rated movie I was pleasantly surprised at how I didn't have to cover my eyes and put aside my hate for constant, gratuitous swearing.

I recommend it! Plus, if you are a movie buff, like me, and haven't seen a movie in awhile, this is one to choose.