Barefoot Gen Rating: 5 out of 5 Author: Keiji Nakazawa My Mum (thanks 🙂 sent me all four of the Barefoot Gen series (I’m still not sure whether there are four or ten in total). I read the first two last year: Jane got them out of the library. The third and fourth succumbed over […]
Look Both Ways IMDB Year: 2006 Writer: Sarah Watt Director: Sarah Watt Rating: 5 out of 5 Those stars that I put on these reviews? You know that they don’t mean “it’s good”, don’t you? What they mean is I like it. The Aussies have done it again. Strangely, only I added Little Fish to […]
It works because it plunges me into a dilemma. Capote is singularly single-minded. Can anyone quote his line as he bribes the Prison Warden for access to visiting Perry? But is his work really his sole motivation? Yes, if you count his identification with Perry as providing the content for his literature. “It’s as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he went out the back door and I went out the front.” We don’t so much love him as get drawn into the question.
Capote doesn’t love Perry either. He’s just drawn into the question. The fact that, apparently, he isn’t horrified by him is all that distinguishes their relationship from ours with Truman.
Of course Philip Seymore Hoffman deserved the Oscar. I was a fan already. He commits from the outset. Effete, right? As the audience moves on to its next fascination, PSH is the only one who isn’t disposable.
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