Feels a little like an F. Scott Fitzgerald story. Also feels dated. Holly is presented as a distinctly American type. Free spirit, open to any and all experience, young, brash, beautiful, intriguing. But . . . time has a way of changing how we see things. Or maybe Capote always wanted us to see her as shallow, mindless, racist, and gruesomely materialistic. 100 pages to figure it out.
Solid opening 30 minutes (we're treating this like a mini-series). O's involvement with left-wing causes . . . rift with Einstein (O thinks of him as over-the-hill and Einstein knows it.) First splitting of atom. Lawrence Lab in Berkeley--Lawrence practical applied physics . . . not O's strength. Main actor is from Peaky Blinders.
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