Sheryl McCarthy thinks so: “Relationships between journalists and their subjects are complicated and often conflicted. Even when they evolve into a kind of friendship, they are fueled, as are most friendships, by needs on both sides. I think Capote genuinely felt affection for his subjects, but he knew there was a boundary between his relationship with them and his job as a writer. At one point in the film he tells Smith, who was still refusing to tell him what happened the night of the murders: I’m working, and I need you to tell me what I need to know, or there will be no more contact.”
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