I had a strong desire to watch this movie as soon as I saw the brief introduction. As a fangirl, of course, I am particularly interested in the protagonist’s sexual orientation, but the plot is more important. By the way, the movie poster’s sense of form should be dragged out and the designer should be shot. If I didn’t carefully read the starring’s name and synopsis, the disc would be regarded as a third-rate bad movie in the gorgeous disc in the pirated market and would be completely ignored by me. , Pirates don’t bother to send more sets of films with that kind of cover... The sense of form is very important, very important!
Tom Ripley [Matt Damon] is a young man with a low life, but he has a unique ability to imitate the handwriting and voice of others, and is good at disguising.
By chance, he was entrusted by a wealthy shipbuilder to go to Italy to persuade the son of the wealthy businessman, Di Qi [Judy Law] to return to the United States. Ripley met the rich girl Melty Lando [Cate Blanchett] on the ship, and a few words convinced her that she was the son of the ship king, Dick Genny. In Italy, Ripley has well integrated into Dickey’s life. Ripley is deeply envious of Dickey’s everything and has an indescribable admiration for Dickey. When Dickey resolutely denies and rejects Dickey. After Lee, Rep, who was out of control, used the oar to kill Dickey.
After that, Ripley came to Rome pretending to be Ditch, and met Merty again and dated with him, but soon met Ditch’s girlfriend Marge [Gwyneth Paltrow] and musician Peter [unknown] The handsome guy played], he designed Melty to meet Marge to create a fake image of Dickey pedaling on two boats. Later, he killed Freddy who found him impersonating Dickey. He hurriedly escaped from Rome and then went to Venice to fake Ditch’s handwriting left a letter of remorse suicide for murdering a friend, which not only saved him from the blame, but also convinced Ditch’s father that Ditch’s favorite during his lifetime was not Marge but Ripley himself. A large sum of money belonging to Dickey.
Ripley, who thought he had gotten off everything, took the boat to Athens with Peter. The story should have been perfect at this point, but Ripley met Melty on the boat again. His kiss with Melty made Peter feel Ripley, who was jealous and suspicious, unable to hide it, killed Peter. Finally, he returned to his cabin and sat in silence.
Every detail in the plot is very delicate.
At the beginning of the film, Ripley performed in a borrowed Princeton school uniform. The wealthy businessman Hannibal Kenney thought Ripley was at the same school as his son and asked him to go to Europe to retrieve his son. Every word Nibal said was imitated by Ripley so vividly that Dickey was astonished. Hannibal's wife Ripley, whom Hannibal had only mentioned once, also remembered the name of his wife, and easily got Melty. Trust. Ripley plays the piano in the theater in the middle of the night to satisfy his vanity. It is not surprising to borrow school uniforms, and it also paves the way for Ripley's unscrupulous means to get a luxurious life in the future. In order to get close to Dickey, Ripley, who loves classical music, frantically fills up jazz, and deliberately pretends to accidentally drop the jazz disc in front of Dickey.
The most exciting part is that when Freddy was killed after the disguise of Dickey was exposed, he carried Freddy's huge body and carried him into the car. Passersby passed by at night, and Ripley complained loudly and slightly sullenly." "Drunk" friends lowered their heads and then imitated Freddy's voice to retort. The vivid voice and smooth behavior made all the audience stunned. Earlier in the film, Melty mentioned that no one in Rome did not know Freddy. When Ripley imitated Freddy’s voice, the expressions on the faces of passersby proved that they recognized the "drunk fat man" as Freddy, those passers-by also became the personal certificates that later identified Dickey [Ripley was pretending to be Dickey], and Ripley himself escaped at night, disappearing from Rome like the wind.
After Ripley arrived in Venice, he had to participate in the police investigation because he was also involved in the murder of Ditch. Earlier, he had faked Ditch’s tone and handwriting and wrote a letter to Ripley indicating suicide. Pretending to be relaxed, the agent handed the letter to him. He first asked, "You have opened it and read it?" Then he walked to the side and looked at the letter with his back to the crowd. After reading it, Ripley looked flustered and whispered. Said: "This is a letter stating that you will commit suicide." Then he sternly said to the agent with tears: "You have read this letter a long time ago but you still come to ask me these boring questions?!" So Leip Lee became a victim of the loss of his lover, and Peter, who had been with Ripley, felt sympathy and affection for him.
There are two theories about what Ripley did. One is that Ripley's personality split after killing Dickey. Because he deeply loved Dickey and reached the state of being spiritually integrated with Dickey. While living as Dickey, he lives as Ripley himself. Another argument is that Ripley’s love for Ditch is purely out of jealousy of Ditch’s life. Killing Ditch and replacing Ditch’s life was planned from the beginning.
The first statement about split personality is wishful thinking nonsense, the second statement is too absolute.
Ripley must be jealous of Ditch, but there must also be love. These two feelings can coexist. Ripley’s sexual orientation is not clear, but it is certain that he is more male. He loves Marge and he also loves Melty, but his feelings for Peter are more pure, and his feelings for Dickey are crazy. . After killing Ditch, he and the corpse hugged and slept in a drifting boat, as if Ditch fell asleep peacefully with his arms around him. The wonderful letter that was later forged was Ripley’s own forged Dic. Qi's love and commitment to herself deceived everyone and satisfied herself to a certain extent. It’s Peter who really loves Ripley, but he was killed by Ripley. It can be said that if he doesn’t fall in love with Ripley, then he won’t die. Ripley killed him to hide after all His crime was also to hide that dirty self. Instead of letting Peter know his ugliness and being abandoned, it is better to let him never know.
In the film, Ripley kills three people, and the handling of each assault is shocking.
The first time was to kill Dickey when he was out of control, saying that Ripley lost control because Dickey had beaten him before, and Ripley raised his oar in fear and despair. The oar hit Dickey's temple, and blood flowed out like a crash. In the distant view, Ripley took the oar to hit Dickey again and again, knocking him to death with tears. Very quiet, only the sound of sea water.
The service creature in the hotel regarded Ripley who had fled back as Ditch, and Ripley was shocked. It was only after this that Ripley began to use his talents, on the one hand to hide his homicide, on the other hand, borrowing Dickey's identity to live the life he once desired. So killing Ditch was not planned from the beginning, but an accident.
The second murder was to kill Freddy who saw through his fake behavior.
Freddy was quick-thinking. When he broke into the apartment rented by Ripley's fake Dickey, he was full of doubts about Ripley. Moreover, he and Ripley disliked each other from the beginning. do not kill. Ripley used a plaster head after he broke into the door [it may not be a plaster, but it is very similar to the plaster heads I painted in high school...] banged on his head, and Ripley was still there just five minutes ago Told the frivolous Freddy not to touch the expensive stone statue indiscriminately.
This scene is easily reminiscent of the scene at the end of the Korean movie "The Scarlet Letter", where the proprietress of the photo studio took the statue of the Virgin and smashed her husband on the head again and again. It was also the scene when the police walked back and forth indoors after the assault was over. The cleansed murder weapon blurs the picture not far behind the police. Of course, "Scheming" comes first, and "The Scarlet Letter" comes after.
The third murder was at the end of the film.
Peter lay on the bed and smiled and said "some good things about Soup Ripley." His voice was gentle, deep and graceful. Ripley gently leaned on Peter's back, his ears against his body, With a fragile smile, he listened to the lover's lingering whisper, holding a long silk scarf tightly in his hand.
Then he walked back to his cabin and sat down by the bed in loneliness. Peter's voice continued, followed by a short moan, Ripley cried out his name, and then no sound was lost.
And at the beginning of the movie, it was the scene where Ripley was sitting, his face was expressionless, and his voice said softly: "If time can go back, if the past can be erased, from the beginning of my life , From when I borrowed the school uniform..."
Regarding Peter's death, there is no need to worry about how it will end. Ripley will still design cleverly and get away with it.
Matt Damon’s performance was very moving. I have always had little interest in movies about secret agents, so I have only watched "Mind Catcher" in the movie he starred in. In that movie, he played a cleaner in the university. In his spare time, he left it on the blackboard and no one made it. Afterwards, an excellent teacher led him to the mainstream life path-to give full play to his talents, to grasp life... The theme is very good, the actor is also great [Robin Williams], and the director is also very strong [格[S. Van Sant], the script of that movie was written by Matt Damon himself, and he won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. He really has a high IQ.
In "Scheming", the Ripley he played does not seem to be the kind of evil villain. He looks fragile. Everything he did was because he was really hurt. However, the disguise he made was so real. So scary, what kind of evil and intelligence can escape everything so easily.
The film sets the perspective on a criminal person, but the audience does not feel that Ripley deserves to be severely punished by the law. Instead, he is nervous about whether he can get out of all kinds of dangers. After he killed Dickey, the audience felt more sympathy for Ripley; as for Freddy’s death, the fat man deserved it; Peter’s death made a deep sorrow, everyone knows Ripley will do whatever it takes to protect himself, but everyone still has to ask why Ripley must do this, and if Ripley really exists, he must have asked himself countless times.
No one wants to be a bad guy in the first place. Is Tom Ripley a bad guy? Of course he is, but he is so pitiful, even if he doesn't go to prison, he still suffers from the torment of his heart. [Very different from the shameless classmate Ye Shenyue, huh? ] What kind of evil is it twice to kill the person I love deeply, and what kind of fragility is it. Dickey is too slutty, Marge is too persistent, Melty is too entangled, Freddy has too many things, Peter is perfect, but he is too gullible about Ripley. There are so many wrong things in this world, maybe not because there are so many bad people, but because there are so many different people.
In the end, Ripley had lost far more than he had gained.
The plot of the movie is actually not perfect. Although the whole story is said to be satisfactory later, if it is in the real society, such a thing is still too absurd. Some accidents were arranged in the story. It was these accidents that allowed Ripley to escape, indicating that Ripley’s scheming was not perfect, and all the disguise he did could only be arranged in that era. I can’t tell, it’s probably 50. -In the 1970s, when listening to video discs, there were fishermen singing arias at the port of a small Italian town. The ladies were well-dressed and elegant, and the decorations in the house were complicated and exquisite. It was an era without the annoying digital machinery of modern society. Feel the age of art.
The rhythm of the film is very smooth, interlocking and full of tension; the actors perform wonderfully, Matt Damon is fragile and introverted, yet calm and fierce, Judy Lao is frivolous and lively, Gwyneth Paltrow is gentle and kind, and Kate Blanchett's noble and affectionate, unknown handsome guy is elegant and deep...; the film is extremely beautiful, showing the beautiful scenery and unique style of Italy at that time; the beginning of the ancient Greek opera-like singing, the folk songs and jazz of Italian towns , Operas, church hymns... Various types of music run through it, full of artistic flavor... very beautiful. It's also very beautiful, why is everything so beautiful, combined to describe such a cruel story.
After seeing it, I was deeply saddened.
Tom Ripley, sitting in the gloomy cabin, he had just returned from Peter. Maybe he stayed with him for a while after he killed him, and walked back when the tears dried.
His expression is so indifferent, whether it is because of sadness or cold blood. And I don't know whether to sympathize with him or hate him.
[Tang quietly plays a sad song, and Peter walks over. ]
Peter: I do not believe that letter, you believe it, I am referring to Mladic that letter, you believe it?
Tom: I don't know what to believe.
Peter: If he killed Freddy, how could he live safely. How can you stand it every morning when you look back suddenly? It's as easy as drinking coffee every morning?
Tom: No matter what you do, no matter how bad, no matter how painful, you think it makes sense, right? No one thinks he is a bad person, right?
Peter: It always tortures people, after all, it kills people.
Tom: Would you bury the past in the basement, then close the door and never go in? I just do that.
Peter: Oh my god, yes. I need a building to bury it.
Tom: ...then you will meet a special person, all you have to do is give him the key. Said: "Open the door and go in."...but it can't, because it's too dark and ghosts everywhere, in case he finds out how terrifying it is...
Peter: You play too much sad music, that kind of music Make you think about it.
Tom: I just want to vent my secrets and memories, open that door... let the light in and illuminate everything. I wish I could have a giant eraser erase everything, and be a human again. But the problem is, Peter, if... if... if... I don't know what to say...
Peter: Then give me the key.
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