Just watched the last reel of Capote again.
Truman's reaction to Perry's death speaks to me; I know what that feels like.
And that is Capote's experience filtered through a book and some personal narrative to friends as portrayed by Philip Hoffman (since deceased in a manner not too dissimilar to Capote) that is vividly specific enough for me to react to.
Here's the twist; keep the death penalty, keep it profoundly expensive (and therefore rarely applied) and let's keep the discussion going about whether or not to ban it. The death penalty, and it's impact on the arts, discourse, morality, philosophy, is something subsequent generations need to have for themselves and is worth the price.
(this is a corollary of converse to Waters take on it)
Truman's reaction to Perry's death speaks to me; I know what that feels like.
And that is Capote's experience filtered through a book and some personal narrative to friends as portrayed by Philip Hoffman (since deceased in a manner not too dissimilar to Capote) that is vividly specific enough for me to react to.
Here's the twist; keep the death penalty, keep it profoundly expensive (and therefore rarely applied) and let's keep the discussion going about whether or not to ban it. The death penalty, and it's impact on the arts, discourse, morality, philosophy, is something subsequent generations need to have for themselves and is worth the price.
(this is a corollary of converse to Waters take on it)
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
