I still like Dick. He is really as bright as the sun, with his own dreams and unique kindness. The love for Maggie, the woman's death and suffering, Ripley's forbearance.
Maybe the protagonist is actually not that disgusting and scary, but in the end he made himself like this.
This is a person who has his own outline but is not so clear. He has a little bit of his own yearning, but it is not very clear, just a prototype. That's why he can imitate anyone, because he is not him, so imitating anyone is possible, just like a piece of mud or mud can be shaped into any model, but once it has been forged at high temperature, it is his own. It can only be him. This piece of mud is not imitating everything, only when he meets what he likes, agrees with, and feels that he is right, he will do it. So when he meets someone he likes and yearns for, he unconsciously imitates and so on. But for a proud person like Dick, being imitated, especially by someone who doesn't like it, is very uncomfortable. In fact, many people grow up like this. When they don’t know many things, they are influenced by the people around them to like things and values, and imitate the people they like.
Dick is Ripley's yearning and the person he most wants to be. He is warm, smart, generous, cheerful, likable, dreamy, passionate, and motivated. He thought he was Ripley's confidant, and he was so happy that his days with Dick were his best, his most like himself, his most comfortable, his happiest days. Because it is a confidant and a friend, I think everyone is the same as the initial concept of a friend, that is, what is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. It's a pity that Ripley was vain and lied, so Dick couldn't take his free food as such, but thought it was a liar who got nothing for nothing.
I believe Ripley first got into jazz for Dick, but he also fell in love with jazz because of Dick's influence. He yearned for Dick. But he couldn't see what he yearned for Dick. And because of his own inferiority, as well as Dick's characterization and evaluation of him, like a curse, it has a certain influence on him faintly. So he stifled his longing. Then he murdered step by step, murdered himself, and finally murdered his last bit of redemption. So he sank heavily into the basement.
A lot of people in this movie will say that it evaluates human nature and so on. What I saw was a lost self. When Ripley in this movie murders Dick, it's like murdering his best self, his best self. Just like in society, when we entered the society and faced some cruel reality, we killed the self that we most wanted to be, and gave up the self we wanted to be the most, scientists? Doctor? Peking University? Some even gave up on their lover. Even the most precious things were given up. At that time, I didn't think that the pain came slowly and deeply, and I was already a walking corpse. It seems that other things don't matter, there was a compromise, and it seems that the subsequent compromises are so accustomed to it. So much so that in the end, he made himself unrecognizable. I still remember a novel by Yi Shu, a woman with a human face and a dog's body, a strong and beautiful woman, who struggled for a while, lost her body, and became completely unrecognizable. In the end, only a woman with a human face and a dog body was left at the door of her lover. .
In fact, Ripley is very lucky. Many people have missed their deepest feelings. If they make a few mistakes, they will have no chance. However, he is so lucky and can meet Peter who loves him deeply. Peter is so good , he can see the advantages of Ripley, which is the last medicine to wake Ripley. But Ripley killed Peter. He has low self-esteem and is so selfish that he lost the last chance to find himself.
Ripley said that the key to the basement wanted to be given to his lover, but he couldn't because it was too dark, too scary, and there were demons. It should be said that you are afraid of hurting your lover, but can that hurt as much as you kill it? Too low self-esteem, too selfish to pay attention to their own feelings, too easy to despair and give up. Not knowing how to struggle and resist. But he killed himself to protect himself, but he ended up killing himself. There is no opposition to the place. Can't figure out what's important in life.
Genius is so stupid.
People who kill themselves are often because they can't distinguish the important, the primary and the secondary, when they should react and resist, they don't react, they want to be relaxed, they want to be convenient, they are afraid of consequences, and they are afraid of paying. Those who can't see clearly can be said to be poor and stupid, and those who know they have given up can only say they deserve it.
Killing so many people, being so tired and unhappy, it's better to be tired earlier and make yourself better. Just like those who want to go to the battlefield, when exercising, they are reluctant to be tired and painful.
Face your own mistakes bravely, pull back from the precipice, never be too late, don't give up on yourself in despair, there is no worst, only worse.
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