I was very conflicted when I chose this movie, and the object of my hesitation was Jude Law. . When he was rumored to be rumored, I had deliberately seen the photos, and I thought that this man was not as handsome as the comments, and there was a strange feeling, in short, I didn't like it very much. However, fortunately there are two actors I admire, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, which made me decide to watch this movie. Facts have proved how correct my original choice was.
Tom Ripley, played by Matt, started out as a young man living in the basement. He met a wealthy businessman because of a borrowed coat, and was entrusted to go to Italy to persuade the wealthy businessman's son (Dicky played by Jude Law) to return home. When T arrived in Italy, sunshine, sand, beauty and a luxurious life, everything was his dream. T and D have been together all day, and unknowingly, they learned about D's habits and fell in love with D. In one of the two going out to sea, when he expressed his love to D, D rejected him and expressed his determination to marry his girlfriend. In the love-hate relationship, T kills D and lies with the corpse. When he came back, T became D, possessing his identity, property, rights, except his girlfriend. In order to maintain this lie, T made up more lies and killed more people...
Saying T is a genius is not only because he has the talent to imitate others, but also because he is very scheming. From the first moment he arrived in Rome, he claimed to the rich girl that he was D. At that time, he had never seen D at all, and had no formed plan to replace it. It was entirely in an instinctive sense of vanity, or Some unspeakable emotions. After pretending to be D, he tried his best to get around people, switching between the two identities, and he never took off the disguise for a minute, even when he was sleeping. In the face of the secret that is about to be revealed, he can also be calm, the lie comes out of his mouth, and there is no taste of lie, as if he is the same person.
I like Matt's performance very much, but I have a sense of resistance to his performance of T, and feel that he is very tired. It seems that he is doing whatever he can to get what he is after, but I feel that in the process he has fallen into a kind of inability to extricate himself and lost himself. Is it really possible to completely replace another person and get a completely different life at the same time? Then whose state of mind should we endure this life?
After pretending to be another person, how much does the original self remember. At the end of the film, when he asks someone to describe Tom, I don't know whose identity and psychology he is listening to, but at least I don't think he is anyone. His moving expression was a revealing of his true feelings, because he was lost in the illusion he created, the lie was about to be exposed, and he turned back to the past self and couldn't find the original way. The only thing he can do is to kill the person in front of him. This order does not come from his brain, but from the discrete soul to obtain a temporary sense of existence. He doesn't know what will happen in the future, and he didn't act in the movie, but I think there are two possibilities, one is that he faces the reality and commits suicide; the other is that he continues to escape, continues to pretend to be someone else and goes to a place no one knows and continues to exile the clear. self conscious.
Also, one of the big takeaways for me from this movie is that Jude Law is really handsome and very sexy. Different from the modern American handsome guy like Tom Cruise, he has a European classical charm, like an actor in the 1930s and 1940s, or it may be related to the Italian style of the whole movie. He has a thick feeling, every inch The lines are like carved out, very charming! !
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