In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker learn, the gruesome murder and absurd from a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story material, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to research for the article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be the work of the greatest, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith, a quiet and let the troubled history. As he works on his book, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book, but the execution can be provided. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject to two troubling experience that would produce a literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction making. |