The film has always been classified as a crime of high IQ and has an unabashed title. Thinking of Cat and Mouse, I'm looking forward to seeing the talented Ripley show off his dazzling, breathtaking criminal skills.
However, until the film is halfway through, Ripley played by Matt Damon is still obedient to Dickie's words, unreserved, and even a little cowardly, completely unlike Leonardo's suave and suave in "The Cat and Mouse Game", Swaying freely, I feel very strange in my heart. I didn't wake up until Ripley put his head on Dickie on the train and kissed his shadow reflected in the window.
It's not that I'm not corrupt, it's because I've always been too corrupt, I wanted to watch this film with a normal mindset, but...
I understood this, and everything went smoothly. Although Ripley showed a little bit of cleverness before, but because he loved Dickie, he always acted humble and adored in front of Dickie, until he killed Dickie, everything was irreversible, he did not sink in fear, and It is calm to go to hell.
Some people say Ripley would be better off with Leonardo, but I think Matt Damon is a good fit. Ripley is handsome but not dazzling enough, a little flirty but not chic enough, his kind of timidity that even after he has acquired his identity, Matt Damon is just right. Leonardo was too aristocratic, and even if he played a poor boy, he would still be like a prince visiting privately.
Jude Law's Dickie and Ripley are a stark contrast. He is like the sun, attracting everyone's attention and burning them.
In this film, Jude Law is clearly a heartthrob, with two women obsessed with him, plus Ripley, who loves him enough to kill him. But we found that Ripley is also a heartthrob, although he always has a bad air about him, but Dickie said, he can make me laugh, Meredith liked him very much from the beginning, not to mention the gentle Peter, who regarded him as A wounded, closed child loves him so tenderly.
Dickie's heartthrob is rightly deserved, he's rich, outspoken, beautiful, and when he's nice to a person, he makes the other person feel like the whole world is being put before him. I don't know if Mary will still love him after his violent behavior is known, maybe Mary will be disappointed on a moral level, but people will still love him because he's just like that, when he's impulsive, he doesn't do anything consider. It is precisely because of this that he indirectly killed Silvana - knowing the seriousness of the consequences, he still made her pregnant.
Ripley became a heartthrob because he seemed to be a docile, shy, and lovely young man. For Mary and Meredith, who are women, because Mary knew that he was incompetent and poor, they despised him a bit; but Meredith thought he had a strong background, so his temperament was naturally understood as gentle, simple and shy. . As for Peter as a man, Ripley's appearance of entangled in the pain in his heart must have inspired his strong desire for protection.
The two male protagonists seem to be completely different, but they mirror each other like mirrors. First of all, they are very hard-hearted, and Dickie can't hurt anyone who doesn't like him. As for Ripley, although she looks submissive, she is ruthless. If it is said that she has strong feelings for Dickie because of love and hatred, the people she kills later are completely for her own rational consideration.
Again, both of them have a kind of pride and strong self-esteem for themselves. Needless to say, Dickie, his friends and lovers, all seemed to worship him. As for Ripley, who is uncharacteristically confident that Dickie should love himself as his only brother. He killed the other party because of the other party's refusal. Later, when he forged the suicide note, his tone was exactly as he imagined, that he was the most important person to him.
If Ripley had low self-esteem in the beginning, with the success of his crimes, he completely believed that he could solve anything. When Meredith found him on the ship, he said, You found me, so you will be rewarded, and this reward is, of course, death. Unfortunately, it turns out that Meredith is not alone, so he kills Peter.
Alas, it breaks my heart to write about Peter, so tender, so gentle
of course Ripley himself has been in the pain of being lost, unspeakable, unintelligible. Who does he love? He used to love Dickie, but Dickie hurt him deeply, and he couldn't love him anymore because he killed him. So does he love Peter? I'd rather believe he's in love, because Peter speaks his virtues when he thinks he's worthless, because Peter says he's willing to be that key to open his heart.
But he couldn't accept Peter's love because, if he could really confess everything to him, would Peter accept it?
I'd rather believe that Ripley killed Peter not because he was afraid of being discovered, but because he was afraid to face Peter's love. He wanted to, but he couldn't, so he cried and destroyed that hope.
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