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R:don' t you just take the past and put it in a room in the basement...and lock the door and never go in there? that's what i do.
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R: and then you meet someone special...and all you want to do is toss them the key.say,"open up...step inside."but you can't... because it's dark and...and there are demons.and if anybody saw how ugly it is. ..
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R:i keep wanting to do that.fling the door open.just let the light in clean everything out.if i could take a giant eraser and rub out everything...starting with myself...the thing is, Peter, if...if...i don't know.
P:no key, huh?
This is a passage that Ripley said to Peter while playing the piano. The next segment is that R runs to find P. He sees him in the church, waving his arms and leading the children to sing, slowly turning to him. Smile, the scene is divine. The collision and relief of two same-sex souls hides indescribable darkness and melancholy. Ripley at that moment was happy, because he was willing to deliver the key to his soul in his life, and he was sacred and beautiful. Peter is happy. He looks at this man who looks up to him and counts on him. He wants to know his secrets, he wants to appease his soul, and he wants him to know how ordinary and different this encounter is. He is for this. I am grateful, so I praise the beauty even more. But he couldn’t see that the man’s heart was sinking bit by bit...
Then Peter took Marge to Ripley’s place and saw R waking up from a nightmare. He wanted to comfort him. He gave With his key, he was ecstatic, and he left for a while, completely unrecognizable. Because of the changes caused by Marge, R was once again embarrassed, so he hurt himself and acted in front of P. That key, along with all this, was declared invalid.
R:i'm sorry peter.i'm lost.i'm going to be stuck in the basement, aren't i?aren't i? that's my...terrible...and alone...and dark .and i've lied...about who i am... and where i am.now no one will ever find me.
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i always thought it's be better...to be a fake somebody...than a real nobody.
Ripley still moved his hand, he groaned, he snarled, but still couldn’t shake his determination to kill. He killed his lover, his friend, his light and redemption, who was still counting Tom Ripley before he died. The good man... At
the end of the movie, Ripley sits on the bed, with Peter's words echoing in his mind, the space overlaps, and the door is finally closed.
no one will ever find him, and he's going to be stuck in the basement.
Who's holding your key?
What kind of decision will you make?
Are there such things that make you unable to redeem the past and let you not let yourself go...
"Is there something worth keeping for a long time? All we have will be given to others someday. Trees have dedicated themselves in order to continue to survive, because preservation is the end of existence."
-Gibran
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