i saw this film after watch capote and infamous . it be just incredible how the homosexual relationship between author and protagonist be sublimate in the movie . the reporter be straight and the protagonist be more beatnik than gay . the film start slowly and but on review it a second time and we get all sort of interest information from simile that the writer or director brook create . notice the incredible cutting at the beginning where killer and to be kill be link . cutter on the phone be match cut to perry on the phone . cutter wash his face be match cut to perry wash his face . only perry look in the mirror and see his eroticized male body set off a fantasy of his play a guitar in la vega to empty chair . this failure or fantasy match the failure fantasy that perry tell u about his father who build a beautiful motel in alaska only to find it perpetually empty . dick talk about shoot pheasant and the fact that the pheasant do not know that that theyre go to die . we cut to the clutter . perry talk his dream about a yellow bird and taller than jesus who attack the nun who have persecute them . the nun beg for mercy and he tell u and but the bird slaughter them anyway . the bird lift perry to paradise . strangely and perry say that he have an aversion to nun and god and religion . this echo later in his last word when he want to apologize but do not know to whom . the director put in all sort of what ifs and only ifs . nancy cutter get an offer to sleep at a friend house . she be hold a horse . perry will comment on a picture of her and the house later on . nancy can not sleep over at her friend house because her boyfriend be come over for dinner . the decision seal her fate . perry talk of bogart in treasure of sierra madre . but it be another bogart picture and beat the devil which truman capote co write and where a fictional treasure hunt be the mcguffin . but dick know that the protagonist of that film end up with nothing . dick want the hard cash and the $ 10 and 000 he think be in the clutter safe and ( which ironically turn out to be as much a a fantasy a perry mexican treasure . cut to herb clutter sign a $ 40 and 000 life insurance policy . he think about mortality at the moment . ironically his mortality be about to end in a few hour . the insurance agent on behalf of the company wish him a long life and again ironic when we know what will happen in a few hour . dick have say that they want no witness so nobody would remember them . later and in fact and it be because they eliminate all the witness that they be remember . there be one witness and the detective keep tell dick later . but be that witness the jail house friend and dick and perry and truman capote and or god . the viewer become the witness after watch the movie . fascinating film .