I watched five seasons of "Breaking Bad" in between.
The first time I watched it was last August, and it was not a pleasant viewing experience, struggling with the loopholes in the suspenseful part of the plot (the Italian police are so stupid?), and on the other hand, very dissatisfied with Jude Law's premature death (so handsome). die so early?).
I don't know why, I finished watching "Breaking Bad" in the next few months, and one day after that, when I was still stuck in the world of Lao Bai and his meth, at some point on this day , The film "Genius Ripley" suddenly crawled out of his mind.
So I watched it a second time. What is very strange is that my sense of substitution for the film is more than one level stronger than when I watched it for the first time. All the loopholes in the plot are automatically filtered out (the Italian police are so stupid and reasonable; Qiu Tu deserves it early), and my sense of substitution for Ripley is the same as for Lao Bai when I watched "Breaking Bad" generally.
Ripley's and Old White's psychological change lines are too similar:
they both end up being bad guys.
They become bad people because they lie too much. There are so many that it is impossible to stop using one lie to make up for another lie.
And initially, the reason they started lying was very simple: vanity, to Ripley, was just a Princeton University coat;
The summary of this line is: vanity generation → lying because of vanity → crime
breaking bad for the sake of lying .
Lao Bai and Ripley are similar in two points:
1. Talented?
The title of the film is "The Talented Mr. Ripley". The title and introduction give people the feeling of a high-IQ crime film similar to "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Chainsaw". After reading it, I find that it is actually closer to "Breaking Bad". Ripley isn't that talented, he's not a master planner, and all his actions are filled with uncertainty. Murder was never in his plan, and his clever plan was just to wipe his ass for the murder. Even if his every move was successful, he was full of fear and anxiety.
These are very similar to "Breaking Bad". Before watching "Breaking Bad", I already knew something about this show, and Lao Bai was also deified. After reading it, I found out that Lao Bai is just a bad old man with better craftsmanship. The drugs he makes are relatively pure, and he can also make some small inventions. In the beginning, he accidentally killed two people, which was very lame. After that, everything he and Xiaofan did was lame. All of Lao Bai's careful planning is not to make his future better, but just to make up for all the bad things in the past. This is the same as Ripley's plan to kill someone to wipe his ass.
2. Liar?
The saddest thing about Ripley and Lao Bai is that everything they strive to achieve needs to be maintained by a large web woven through lies. This is also like an upside-down pyramid. The bottom of the tower is propped up by bricks of lies. Even if the bricks built on the tower are no longer a lie one day, the entire pyramid will completely collapse due to the breakdown of the original lie. Whether they finally choose to confess or hide, they cannot be sincere.
If the goal is to satisfy the initial vanity, then Ripley is considered a complete success; Lao Bai initially only wanted to earn 720,000 inheritance to support his family, and he did not know how many times he overfulfilled the task. But whether it was Ripley or Lao Bai, in the end, it was impossible to weigh the pros and cons. Ripley finally told Pete: "I'm lost." I'm afraid Lao Bai has thought about saying this.
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