like others and i have see and study most of the book and film concern the clutter killing and include a few dramatic work thematically base on the action and psycho mythology of the participant to the crime include capote himself . a to capote and i can not forgive him for willfully withhold perry smith confession and intimacy and writing from even the defense counsel . i believe truth and fact capote reserve for his book and which require for capote two guilty verdict and capital punishment and would almost certainly have sustain a successful insanity defense for perry smith even under the old mcnaughton rule . capote himself could never write another major literary work after in cold blood . shame and guilt . in my opinion and he willingly encourage and plan the brutal capital punishment to provide the spectacular end he require for his book or drama . to him and both men have to die for his book to succeed . the book have to justify itself by pretend it be about the horror of capital punishment . his action and silence assure that ice cold conclusion . capote book be not truth . it be not factual or journalistic . it be drama and melodrama spice with his own creatively psychotic imagination . what most people consider the virtue of the contemporaneous first movie be stark image of capote mind and which may have be the most cold blood aspect of all . no wonder viewer ironically but necessarily prefer blake performance . that actor be the nightmare from capote dishonest imaginings . so who be to say how the two killer should be play . who be to judge what could make an essentially poetic psychotic snap from excessive courtesy and kindness to do it now kill . i agree with the few who see in eric robert work a magnificent performance and shakespearean in it range and yet play with heartbreaking sincerity . anthony edward take a much safe attitude mode to create a smarmy hickok while but he be one dimensional and boring and with only a few note in his television range . robert be almost four dimensional and add physical weakness and agony to a powerful animal body and a frankenstein creature who think in poetry and know exactly what not to do . like leopold apropos loeb and robert perry smith be hopelessly in love with an evil man . without hickok or a man of his particularity and perry smith would not have bring his psychotic mind into a world of horror . he fear himself more than he fear anything else in life . give the freedom from capote death grip on the consciousness of the clutter killing and robert and edward be free to create original personality and psychosis to craft a different and new production of the drama . same fact and some of the same line from the case record and but deep and more complex and with clearly titanic psychotic stress indeed robert be so good at this fluidic madness that he physically and facially demonstrate in every moment how little awareness he have of where or who he be . what many of our reviewer dislike about this film and robert in particular and be that cold blood kill isn not show the way they expect and have be manipulate to demand . that be because here we be see a far more profoundly realistic interpretation of life and death than capote could ever create a real tragedy . the actual cold blood killer and mr. capote and and his hypocritically artistic non fiction novel do not control these interpretation and performance . if in cold blood and capote effect on life and literature and truth matter as much a scholar say and then it take gut as well a talent to portray the truth and or a version of the truth and that be not the rank and cowardly lie draw up from the fathom of capote own abyss .