Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley in the film, and the handsome guy in "The Bourgge" used his face pleated behind the giant glasses to make me instantly sick from the beginning of the film. The first half of the film is like warm swallowing water, softly padded with small details. What basically attracted me was Jude Law's performance with his natural playboy image. When Jude Law came out, there was no color in the sixth house, and the contrast of Matt Damon's scumbag image was really ashamed and ugly. So even if Tom played by Matt secretly talked about Dickie played by Jude in the film, and the feelings are pure, I can't imagine that Dickie will really like Tom. However, the film finally reached a turning point after a few small naps: Tom was rejected after confessing to Dickie and killed Dickie by mistake.
So a series of excitement in the second half rolled in, which has been attracting my sleepy brain and tried to finish it. Matt's image also changed drastically, and a face full of unpleasantness gradually improved, and finally solidified at the end of the film, completely indifferent and petrified, which made me feel distressed.
In fact, the world is bitter.
Perhaps Tom did have two brushes. He used the opportunity to realize his wish to travel to Europe. The lies that struck up on the road became part of his great conspiracy, and after he met Dickie, everything Everything has changed. He fell deeply into the abyss of pleasure and love.
In fact, the introduction of the film is seriously inaccurate. Tom's killing of Dickie can only be said to be manslaughter. He didn't want Dicky's wealth and wealth to kill the killer. Everything was just because the frog fell in love with the prince. Tom Ripley is just an ordinary ugly duckling. The so-called high IQ and so-called geniuses are actually gimmicks. Every step Tom takes, stepping on his own blood and tears, is a crime that life forces him to commit.
The first half of the film is very detailed, and Tom's psychological changes are very subtle. Regardless of whether Dickie lied to everyone in terms of orientation, Dickie's message to Tom was indeed too ambiguous. The scene of playing chess by the bathtub is indeed very meaningful. How could Tom, who is in love with him, not have the dream that a wealthy young man like Dickie will fall in love with him. There are many kinds of love. If you fall in love with someone, many people will learn to imitate to understand each other. Tom himself has this kind of talent, so he knows Dickie better than the average person, and after getting along for a long time, he has the ability to imitate and become Dickie unknowingly.
To further rehabilitate Tom, Tom killed Dickie by mistake, in fact, it has a lot to do with Dickie himself. Pushed into a desperate situation, Tom is unwilling to say goodbye to his lover, so regardless of his identity, he boldly speaks his heart. And Dickie is used to living a life of rich clothes and jade food. He has always been wild and unruly. Considering his prestige and wealth, whether he loves Tom or not, he must sever contact with Tom in order to maintain his class status. His reprimand and derogation of Tom on the boat was very fierce, and Tom, who fell in love, was a cautious person who planned his life carefully, calculating every step of the way, and as he said, although he has an exquisite talent on all sides, facing Dickie is always pure. So when Tom's strong self-esteem was torn by his lover to his face, he became angry and killed Dickie by mistake, both unexpectedly and logically.
After that, it was only a matter of time before Tom turned into Dickie. The hotel received a word to wake up the person in his dream. Tom, who lost his love and was deeply desperate, chose to take the risk.
This is when our Tom started to go bad. However, on second thought, Tom's abnormal psychology is also excusable. People's desire to survive is always infinite. After a person is so angry that he kills his lover by mistake, he finds that he has the ability to hide from the sky. If he succeeds, he can still have the life of his dreams. Since there is nowhere to go, there is nothing to lose. Why not bet on your life. A handful?
After that, the plot focused on shaping Tom's "genius".
Many people questioned Tom's "genius", saying that he was just lucky most of the time. Indeed, Tom's impunity is indeed due to his luck, but his own talent and wisdom are indeed the prerequisites for his success. If you carefully chew the plot, you will discover the power of Tom's wit. For example, he set the scene where two groups of friends met at the same place at 10:15 and 10:30 respectively, which fully demonstrated Tom's fast-turning thinking and bold and decisive mind. He set it this way and confirmed the existence of his own two identities through the other party, which can be described as very subtle.
However, at this time, he was too hard to get off, so he could only go farther and farther, and couldn't look back.
Saying a lie will then use 100 lies to round it up, and the next plot is the process in which he keeps on committing crimes to round up the lie in order to protect himself. However, when things became more and more irretrievable, Peter's appearance once again aroused his sense of remorse and kindness.
A little bit he saw the future of himself and Peter, his sins were slowly erased, and he saw that he was about to be done. When happiness was within reach, everything was actually and cruelly placed in front of him. .
The world is bitter.
So he lay down beside Peter with the ribbon, and asked him gently what he had better. And Peter is also full of happiness, telling a little bit of his admiration for Tom, soft language, that faint love, it seems that their happiness is no longer defeated by human suffering at this moment, and the light of dreams will also shine in. Reality. But...
when Peter's voice became weaker and Tom couldn't cry, my heart went cold.
Tom finally put on that indifferent face again, and his love was finally brutally stifled by the world again.
Life is too bitter, too difficult, and too long, I just want to dream about it.
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