In a person's life, there will always be opportunities, and sometimes troubles are unavoidable. Faced with these opportunities and troubles, different people will make different choices, depending on their nature. And every choice he makes has a profound impact on his life path. It is said that opportunities belong to those who are prepared. I believe that few non-Princeton University graduates will prepare a school uniform like Ripley, successfully defrauding the trust of the society. After accepting the commission of Dickey's father, Ripley was not eager to set off on this, but concentrated on studying jazz as a step to enter, and then deceived Dickey's trust. When Dicky asked about Ripley’s outstanding talents, he said almost without hesitation that his greatest ability is to imitate the voices and handwriting of others, and repeat every sentence that Dicky’s father said, vividly. Not a word bad. It can be seen from this incident that Tom Ripley has a very high IQ, has an amazing memory, and is good at disguising. He is deceitful in nature, has a deep city government, and is proficient in the way of waiting for the rabbit, and good at making use of every opportunity for his own profit.
Driven by nature, Ripley's tendency to replace Dicky has been revealed, but he himself has not yet realized it. Even before he found Dicky and he didn't even know what kind of person Dicky was, Ripley dared to lie to Meredith when he met for the first time that he was Dicky, and he was not ashamed and calm. After finding Dicky, Ripley was overwhelmed by the luxurious life of Playboy. At this time, although he hadn't wanted to kill, he didn't necessarily want to impostor, but at this time he was wearing Dicky's clothes and looking in the mirror. Imagining that he is him, I can't help saying that Ripley's psychology has developed in a perverted direction, and his ambition to replace it is even more unacceptable. Some people think that Ripley has a crazy love for Dicky at this time. I think Ripley just loves Dicky’s status and lifestyle, and imagines himself as him. This is a kind of pathological narcissism. Just like Narcissus in Greek mythology fell in love with his reflection in the water, it can't be said that they are really affectionate. This pathological feeling mixed with endless desire eventually led to the scene of killing and destroying corpses on the boat. At the beginning, it was an accident caused by a quarrel. From Ripley’s panic performance, it can also be seen that this was not a premeditated. However, judging from Ripley's vampire-like adherence to Dicky’s corpse with blood on his face, as well as sinking the boat and forging his identity, this indicates that Ripley’s desire to replace Dicky has changed from irrational Imagination rose to the level of rationality, and began to use imposters to complete the de facto role translocation.
After completing the role transition, Ripley's plan became more and more mature. Through carefully fabricated lies, clever use of the messenger, time difference and location misplacement to create the illusion that Dicky still exists, as well as the murder of doubters and shameless rumors, Ripley has deceived almost everyone, including the police, only Dicky’s former close friend Freddie and his ex-girlfriend Maggie saw through the lie, but one of them was killed and the other was not trusted by anyone, and thus escaped the sanctions of the law. Through the forged suicide note, he even got This belongs to Dicky's large fortune.
In the last scene of the movie, he confided in the cabin of his close gay friend Peter, which seemed to be a conscience discovery. In fact, this is the last thing that "Mr. The death sentence of the past identity has completely completed the transformation from human to demon. The ending of the film implies the terrible fact that Peter was strangled to death with a silk scarf. Ripley sat alone in the cabin with a mirror shining his profile. The cabin door was suddenly closed, leaving only a darkness in his heart. A trace of humanity was also annihilated.
In the depths of this boundless darkness, "Mr. Genius Ripley" was born.
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