Favorite movie. Matt Damon is looking for himself, stealing other people's faces and lives, Jude Law lives as one last time, Gwyneth Peltrow is a sincere supporter of all this chaos. And Philip Seymour Hoffman unabashedly ironic from above.
The characters just drove me crazy. It should be noted that the script is based on a book by Patricia Highsmith and I will tell you she is a genius of psychology. Subtle, very subtle. Throughout the film, you can’t understand how you can be both a maniacal Tom and a cheerful egotist of Dickie at the same time, how you can even live if such a nightmare happens in life.
I was in deep shock.
Dialogue wow. Old Italy wow. Picture, music, essence.
Tom is afraid of being nothing and desperately tries to be all the characters at once. If you want to be cheerful, or melancholic, or caring, or polite, you just have to play with those qualities. Tom locks his past in a dark basement. And then he meets someone special, and he wants to give him the key to the basement. But he can't. It's dark and demons everywhere. Maybe someone will see how horrible it is. You look like Dickie outside. Dickie's always like that. It's like you're in the sun and everything's wonderful. And then he forgets about you and it gets really cold. When he is interested in you, there is no one else for him, which is why everyone loves him so much. It’s always the same when someone new comes into your life. . .
The film “The Talented Mr. Ripley” is an unforgettable cinematic experience that makes you think about the boundaries of morality and the ambiguity of human nature.
The film, shot in 1999 by director Anthony Minghella, is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel. A poor young man with the gift of mimicry appropriates someone else's identity - so briefly you can describe the plot. However, this is too superficial a look, because the psychological thriller beckons us to the world of lies and intrigue, offers a look into the basement of the talented Mr. Ripley.
The film subtly intertwines various elements: intrigue, drama, art, as well as human nature in all its manifestations comes to the fore. The plot is tense and exciting, keeps the viewer in constant uncertainty, you can never be sure what action will follow. Each scene is saturated with secrets and intrigue, there is a desire to unravel the psychological motives of the characters.
The picture makes you think about morality and lies, about how far a person is willing to go so as not to be “nobody.”
“If I could take a giant eraser and erase everything, starting with myself...” – such words Ripley says, and this is really his talent: the hero erases his individuality (and does he have one at all?) and tries to replace himself. The desire to try on the face and personality of another person becomes his obsession. In the words of the film, “Pretending to be someone is better than being nothing at all.”
It is worth noting the camera work, the film is wonderfully selected frames, the views, the beauty of Italy are cut into memory. But also, more importantly, the visual helps to feel the tension, the inner world of the characters.
I was most impressed by the latest images. The film featured Ripley’s dialogue with Peter Smith-Kingsley, where he said that all his secrets, his past puts in the “basement” of the mind. So, at the very end of the picture, we see a lonely Ripley, half of his face illuminated by light, and the second by darkness, gradually the blackness absorbs the talented imitator and he remains alone in the cabin, in complete darkness. Then we see the scenes where the door closes. The thoughtful visual skillfully puts an end to the narrative: a dark basement with Mr. Ripley's dirty secrets becomes his dungeon, his personal hell.
The work is worth seeing to enjoy the magnificent directing and acting: the entire cast played amazingly, each actor talentedly conveyed the character of his hero, Matt Damon brilliantly coped with the main role, depicted the complexity of the screen nature. This cinematic experience immerses the viewer in complex psychological passages, in the world of the talented Mr. Ripley, where lies become the rule and moral boundaries dissolve.
Overall impression: I will say that the film at first does not hold much attention, even more, it was a little boring. The introduction was delayed, because only after an hour the events begin, which are interesting to watch, but on the other hand, the story has its own smooth narrative, and the viewer simply needs to be introduced to it. A touchy doppelganger theme, no other way! Expect from the plot of the continuation, and most importantly, what is the outcome of the lie and will everything work out for the talented Mr. Ripley?
Tom Ripley accidentally meets one of the richest people in America, who gives Tom an assignment to go to Italy and convince his son, who spends money in Europe, to return to the States. Tom soon meets Dickie Greenleaf and Marge. Their luxurious life fascinates Tom. And then the circumstances develop so that he decides to take the place of Dickie. But how? In fact, there was a ridiculous accident, but later Ripley delays the game, and the whirlpool of lies runs through the plot. The thing is that Ripley impersonates another person, and he does it well.
What an annoyance Matt Damon is! With his role, he copes with all 100! It is necessary so talented to portray a scoundrel, it is the feeling of disgust that helps to understand how good an actor is. This means that I care about what happens on the screen, how emotions, mental turmoil and other things of the hero are presented. Particularly pleasing is the scene of the quarrel between Dickie and Tom, the most important scene where we understand what kind of person Tom is. This is the starting point of no return. This is where the hero’s lies begin.
The picture has an open ending. I don't really like that, I think it's better to dot the i. Or give it a chance to end. There are ambiguous hints here, because the scum Tom gets away with a lot?! Of course, there is something to ponder: who really is Mr. Ripley? Is he that talented? Rather, just a pathetic person who is lucky in acquaintance and circumstances.
7 out of 10
Very dramatic film. Perhaps Matt Damon's best role. The actors all played brilliantly. The script is great. Music, interiors. But it's too heavy. For a long time leaves a bitter aftertaste. I don't think I'll watch it a second time.
If you know Matt Damon as a charming, smiling guy who wanders from film to film, you haven’t seen The Talented Mr. Ripley. Surprisingly, the filmography of such a talented actor is not at all full of experiments - having received his average role, Matt brilliantly got used to it and, as if lazy to take on something more. However, we will always remember that Matt, that talented Mr. Damon that this film brought to the world. How wonderful that Matt once took this experiment!
Yes, here we have a unique opportunity to admire the actor's play, how different he can be. I personally got goosebumps from Tom Ripley in some scenes - he's so scary! In the scene where late in the evening, by candlelight, he asks Dickie (Jude Law's hero) to sign his signature, he played with just one look, and it was amazing!
In general, the film is extremely atmospheric, it is gorgeously shot! The director here showed himself as a real master who knows how to create an aura, and not stupidly throw the viewer with a direct visual row. Everything is here in neat hints, light breaths, looks and movements... This movie doesn’t happen every day.
As an example of a well-done directorial work, you can at least give a scene in the bathroom with Dickie and Tom. I can safely call it the sexiest in cinema. To be more precise, before or after The Talented Mr. Ripley, there was no such scene in cinema for me. The line is very thin, and more often directors either fall into uncomplicated porn, or go into a specific pop and insincerity. It was only here that I saw real sensuality. “Seeing” is an incorrect word. I felt it. As I said before, the [b] direction is at the highest level. The air was electrified, although in the frame, as they say, everything is calm. In the field of view of the viewer, there is almost no eroticism (one way or another, of course, it is - I just don't know whether the current audience will consider the naked male torso as erotic?), the viewer's homosexuality in the course of the film, to the extent of its depravity, can only think, but at the same time - with subtle strokes - looks, movements, silence - the author drew such a lively scene that just breathtaking! Such masters are rare, and how I respect such masters!
Speaking of actors, I don’t like Gwyneth Paltrow, but in The Talented Mr. Ripley she was neutral to me. But Jude Law is a more complicated story. Since I don’t like him at all (yes, there are such people), for me he was unbearable in this film, just impossible! The rejection of the actor himself was tripled by the abomination of the character, and his presence in the frame just tormented me! So, in a way, I was grateful to Tom Ripley and had a slightly different perspective when I saw this picture. Personally, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” reminds me of “Island of the Damned” (yes, it so happened that I watched it earlier, although it came out 10 years later). It is difficult to say exactly what, but most likely – the feeling that each of us can be in such a trap. If we continue to play in associations, we can say that Dickie turned out to be a kind of Tyler Durden for Tom, only by no means fictional, which then gave rise to his problems. Well, in general, on the topic ' absorption of personality' Tom Ripley can reason from very different perspectives using different approaches, and it’s extremely interesting!
The film is beautifully revised and its atmosphere is not lost. And yes – now, seeing an Oscar nomination for a very ordinary “Martian”, we can only rely on the strange taste of the Academy, who left the really serious work of Matt Damon without attention, as well as the film itself.
What to say in conclusion? The movie is psychological, the story is damn interesting, the movie is very beautiful, and Matt is at the top of his acting abilities! Well, or so: the movie is very cool, and Matt is awesome!
10 out of 10
It is unusual to see simple films among the classics. It's simple because it's calm. Even calmer than "Cuckoo's Nest," which I had previously thought was simple. Slowly, it resembles the “Games of Mind”, and in interest, I believe, surpasses.
A story of friendship. How easily and suddenly it can be conquered. And how exactly can you become a different person?
I never thought Matt Damon could play so well. I've never seen Gwyneth Paltrow so sensual and Jude Law so sincere. Well, Cate Blanchett is always the cherry on any cake!
Operating at the highest level. The role of the writer is visible, but a greater tribute deserves the author of the original novel. Music follows us throughout the chronology, it is soulful and selected so that at the right time to warm up emotions and intensify the drama of what is happening. By the way, in some songs, the characters allegedly sing live and play instruments; I wonder if they really do this themselves, or are these standard editing tricks?
However, for the fact that some of Mr. Ripley’s actions were still superfluous, and certain “talents”, on the contrary, were not used, he lowered his assessment.
If you liked this movie, it’s from Catch Me If You Can. You will be delighted!
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) by Anthony Minghella The rest of Minghella’s films I like less, but for the fact that he was opened for world cinema now driven by girls into the corner of Harvey V. (for this I am ready to fall at his feet), and Minghella for the fact that he made his muse and filmed first my adored Rickman, and then no less adored Seymour Hoffman, who is just amazing here, as always, however. All three are in the grave.
It's not Clément, of course, and Lo, who I suspect was taken because he wasn't bald, wasn't Delon, wasn't Roné. However, he is here and it is his best role of his career. Just because the Highsmith novel, because the Minghellas, because you could look at how actors work with Clément and learn something. But overall, The Talented Mr. Ripley is beautiful with the camera work, the script, the music, and Jack Davenport. . .
But that's not it now. This is a film about unscrupulous mongrels who imagine themselves to be thoroughbred dogs trying to get into a world that they can not teeth. And they don't understand. Here Tom Ripley did everything, as did the hero J. Reese Myers Allen in Matchpoint, ' rewrote ' American tragedy' Dreiser. And if there somehow does not bother that Scarlett Yo & #39; was soaked & #39; and the punishment was not incurred, then everything here somehow is especially sinister and hopeless. With all the incredible beauty. Damon here is especially disgusting and disgusting (he is a great actor, but I can only perceive him next to the beautiful and talented bosom friend Benny Affleck at Kevin Smith in ' Dogma' (both are incomparable!), and in Good Will Hunting (especially, and the script they wrote, and the Oscar for him received and again Harvey V. helped, and the film came out brilliant). Here, Damon and his character are particularly disgusted with their unscrupulous breedlessness, capable of cold-blooded murder. Golden boys girls are also not gifts, but they at least got everything by birth and, if they commit nastyness and meanness, then at least feel a sense of guilt, and here just a bitchy biorobot with a disgusting smile and some inhuman fortune. So decided Minghell, Highsmith evil no pasaran.
Paltrow is a mole, as always, but tries, Blanchett is nice, the duel scene from ' Evgeny Onegin' P. I. Tchaikovsky at the theater is very appropriate.
A native of the beautiful but boring The Isle of Wight, Minghella is a great filmmaker.
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a beautiful, psychological drama about young people who love a beautiful and carefree life. They are intelligent, charming and romantic, but this is only at first glance. In fact, they are selfish and calculating cynics. For their own comfort and well-being, they are ready for anything. Their motto is to live once!
Slow, but at the same time exciting narrative, keeps in suspense until the very end. A bunch of filigree directing, cameramanship and sensual accented music, presses you into the chair.
In addition to the impeccable play of the actors, which can be talked about for a very long time, a huge role in the narrative is played by the environment. Picturesque views of sunny Italy, exquisite interiors, costumes of heroes (which are only Tom Ripley's swimsuits, in which he went to the beach), typewriters, oak tables, cars, etc. Take away one detail and everything will collapse.
The plot is a film, timeless, it is like a parable in which the most destructive human vices are exposed - envy, vanity and pride. But, it is told in such a way that after viewing, a whole aesthetic impression remains, as after visiting, for example, the Dresden Art Gallery. It’s not an aftertaste, it’s a mark on the soul.
Definitely ten balls!
It is very difficult for us, even those who have passed through the fog of the aliens of the nineties, to understand what the Americans were like for the hungry, driven, downtrodden Europeans of the fifties, especially Italians, who were thrown into the hands of the war. The Americans were gods. They had both money and a smiley, white-toothed, pink-cheeked, well-fed civilizational youth, unscorched by history and unencumbered by expensive and troublesome heritage. They were not paralyzed by the piety of the former and so recently so shamefully devoted greatness. Their direct and solvent lack of culture Europe calmed, pacified, gave her hope for renewal, zeroing of the crushing civilizational account.
“And St. Mark’s Square is where there are a lot of pigeons and where there is such a huge cathedral like a chic cinema?” – this kind of naive, reverse to all Soviet intellectual instincts to rush Europe on the neck and cumbersomely, lumps, dumping all his cultural baggage at once in the hope of being not accepted into the family, so even if allowed to the table – the locals not only did not irritate, but disposed to themselves. The cinema is on the site of the temple, so the cinema. After all, Cinecitta, and with her all the great Italian cinema after neorealism, cinematography is not pain, but beauty – was really launched in the forty-ninth American Mervyn Leroy, who abolished the simplicity of his practicality (" Peplum in production on the spot will cost ten times less than in Hollywood) all the fascist connotations of the place inaugurated by Mussolini, bombarded by the Allies, serving as a camp for displaced persons. The new Americans, unlike the aesthetes of earlier days who had fallen to the European cultural relics, did not tear the tired European body apart like the Orpheus bacchanks, but thoughtlessly impregnated decrepitude, gave away their generosity with a dollar and insured geography of broken vitality.
That is how it was perceived by the masses, and we could not do anything about it: being real, for mythology, for the epic, for the parable of heroes, we had not yet learned to ascend on this heroism, our snub-nosed, with the salt between the blades of burnt-out gymnasts supermen with their embarrassment before them squashed - did not have an article of ancient idols, the only heroic article understandable by the Latins. This article and persuasiveness were not possessed by shabby, discredited by upheavals local intellectuals, which sometimes punched them into the dignity not characteristic of them in other times. So Alberto Moravia called the scene of the run of the American starlet performed by Anita Ekberg on the inner staircases to the dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral in “Sweet Life” the most humiliating for Italians in his native cinema: they puff, suffocate and numb with their calves, seemingly young, but from birth drained by the second-rate of their origin Marcello and Paparazzo, and the transocean frogue, in corset linger, on heel heels, know themselves, literally from the other, Mikpelling, because of one person’s anger.
It so happened that the most literally embodied script of this revenge was written by Patricia Highsmith in her series of novels about Tom Ripley. Masscult buried the cult of the masses. Animal, thoughtless, golden-divine, not condescending to spelling and language learning America (" grammatical errors are one of the privileges of expensive Harvard education!) meekly eliminated its own inner European, taking her guise, her passport, her handwriting for painting on bank checks, but remaining himself - subtle, trembling, sexually and morally ambiguous, lonely, thirsty for love, suffering acceptance in the host of all-good entrent. In the “Bright Sun” by René Clément, the first screening of Highsmith, shot on fresh tracks and very close to the text, Ripley played a Frenchman and a playboy Delon, and therefore the film turned out to be a completely internal story that does not go out of civilizational frameworks, didactically with great difficulty and behind the ears assumptions refuting the right of a handsome man to kill for money, but aesthetically giving him an unequivocal go-ahead on “if you want, then, and if you really want, you can do it twice.” Minghella Ripley has the right not because of his bodily perfections (although Matt Demon, in my opinion, is so indecent, shiveringly good intelligent, nervous, doomed to attractiveness Raskolnikov). He, by the sensitivity of his perception, deserved Europe and its beauty far more than the stupid, money-filled beast to which he was assigned as an informant. He does not drown out the Neapolitan canton with his jazz, and the Martini Bianco - whiskey and soda, does not breuhatit and does not incline local girls to suicide, does not obscure and does not replace the local sun - but talentedly fits into the already ongoing drama on Ischia and Procida, on the Ligurian Riviera, at the Spanish Stairs, in the Danieli hotel overlooking Santa Maria della Salute, and therefore the genius of the place stands on his side. Turning their short-lived owners into tourists, cash cows. We all remember that the cow that takes Europe where it wants to go is the oldest of the archetypes.
This film caused me positive emotions with its atmosphere and musical accompaniment. The strong sharpness of the film creates an attraction effect. Much attention is paid to the aesthetic component: landscapes of Italy, playing musical instruments, going to the theater, i.e. even if not a fan of a thriller, the work can enjoy its aesthetics.
Cinema is a mixture of drama and detective, in my opinion. The development of events does not make you break away from the screen, because they take place against the background of beautiful places with melancholy music. There are no chases and no shots. The detective consists of murdering gay people in order to enrich themselves and protect themselves from suspicion. The drama in the ordeal of this gay man, the cat, is still a negative hero. The cameraman clearly captures all the emotions on the faces of the characters. Images are clear. The behavior and psychology of the maniac, who was this gay, is clearly shown. Any viewer will be interested in watching attempts to solve crimes, because there are no complex schemes. Some scenes are so well filmed, with increasing tension and subtle psychologism, that I have reviewed them many times. I became interested in the actor M. Damon after watching it – I played a natural and, in my opinion, his best role. The lack of realism in relation to an unfamiliar chela, a calm cat are taken to their house, a crumpled narrative about the motives of the murder, as well as not condemning a regular killer, his image as a subtle nature do not allow to put a high rating.
If you like atmospheric cinema with close-ups of faces and calm music, then if possible, it is advisable to get acquainted with this creation. The cast and director also say a lot. A sense of depth and loss permeates the film.
One of my favorite movies. I will not and will not be able to compare it with the book, I have not read it, so I am only talking about the film adaptation.
Tom Ripley is sent to Italy on behalf of millionaire Herbert Greenleaf. Tom has to convince Greenleaf Jr. to return under his parents' wing. At the same time, Dickie Greenleaf does not seek to leave the sunny Mediterranean, burning his father’s money in local clubs and restaurants.
Dickie and his fiancée Marge, typical representatives of the “golden youth”, for whom with the appearance of Tom, the usual everyday life acquired an element of novelty. For Marge, this is an interlocutor, you can talk to him about the adored groom. Dickie took on the mission to introduce inexperienced Tom into the world of carefree, and most importantly - comfortable existence.
The three main characters are extremely good. Bright Dickie, heartthrob and lucky. No less than the ladies, he is passionate about jazz. This brightness and cheerfulness is especially noticeable against the background of a silent, quiet Tom. Mr. Tom Ripley's calmness is only apparent. If Dickie looks like a saturated child who throws a toy with the appearance of a new one, then Ripley is constant in his addictions. He is faithful to the chosen idol and will not share it with anyone. Cold-blooded and calculating, although at first glance it seems ridiculous and even stupid. Thanks to these qualities, Ripley manages to implement his plans.
Marge in the first half of the film remains somewhat in the shadow of male characters. Its character is revealed much later, when nothing can change.
Now a little bit about the performers. All good, but Jude Law played brilliantly. It’s a pity he didn’t get an Oscar, I think it’s one of the best roles of an actor. Greenleaf turned out alive and bright, as I said.
Ripley played by Matt Damon was no less interesting. He showed the transformation of a ridiculous young man into a man who will stop at nothing to pursue his goal. Appetites are growing, and Tom doesn't want to go back to his old life. All these moments Damon played well.
I will also note Gwyneth Paltrow, she very subtly made her heroine. Closer to the final, Marge has more reason to worry, she becomes restless. It is nice that these throwing and nervousness are transmitted through a minimum of gestures. Marge does not wave her arms, does not run in hysterics, but the viewer understands how hard it is for her.
And finally, I can’t help but mention the costumes in the film, they also got an Oscar nomination. And for a Greenleaf man, clothing is also a way of expressing yourself. In a jacket and tie or sailing pants, Dickie looks equally natural and at ease.
Of course, some questions remain. For example, why didn't anyone, including the police, ask what Dickie looked like? Didn't the loving Marge have any pictures of him? But I will leave it to the author of the book.
In summary: if there is a person who could not see the film, strongly recommend!
10 out of 10
The film "The Talented Mr. Ripley" I decided to watch, first of all, because of the star cast, in the person of Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Philip S. Hoffman.
The beginning was very intriguing: a certain Mr. Ripley goes to sunny Italy at the request of Mr. Greenleaf (one of the richest men in America) for his son Dickie Greenleaf - a rebellious young man who refuses to return home, spends his father's money and, in general, behaves not like a person who is going to inherit a huge and successful business.
I don’t want to reveal the whole plot of the film, so I’ll jump a few things forward:
Ripley meets Dickie and his girlfriend Maggie, and eventually he begins to enjoy life with Greenleaf: constant splashes, fun and... life with the feeling that someone needs you. Being single since childhood, he imbues Dickie with a strange love, not as a sexual partner, not as a brother, not as a friend. In any case, he is very attached to him, unlike the cocky Dickie, whom people cling to exactly as much as they are interesting to him.
I was very impressed with the music in the film, which sets its rhythm and atmosphere. What's the scene at the bar where Dickie played the saxophone? When I watched it, I smiled.
Of course, I was impressed by Matt Damon. I always liked him and impressed him outwardly, but this time, despite his pretty face and pleasant appearance, he was unpleasant to me in everything: in all his actions, conversations, smiles. I believe that this is solely the merit of the actor himself, and not the writers who created such an image on paper.
Jude Law is, of course, an unimaginable handsome man. He gives a true aesthetic pleasure when watching any film with his participation. And here, the beautiful appearance of Jude, by no means, does not interfere with his hero, but on the contrary, helps the viewer to better understand Dickie. A young man who has everything: money, appearance, fame, with which he can behave like cattle with all the people around him.
A film about loneliness, love, friendship, crime and punishment.
I recommend watching in any company, in any condition and in any atmosphere!
7 out of 10
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" I am not myself, but I will be yours.
“Be calm and don’t worry when you’re gone, I’ll be you.”
When I was born, I was already alone, fate gave me neither brothers nor sisters. From my childhood I remember not much, only a lot of strangers passing through me, rushing always somewhere, their faces were always adorned with a smile and, I strongly felt their constant interdependence, indescribable feeling, attracting them to each other even for hundreds and thousands of kilometers ... I knew that each of them lived a happy life, with no one or stranger, but exclusively his own. In my life, though far from pleasant, I sought some meaning and never stopped searching for it. Perhaps fate has either rewarded or punished me with an incredible trio of talents: forging signatures, deceiving and impersonating other people. Once I got a lucky ticket and I got the opportunity to live a radically different, fully happy life..., someone else’s life. I remembered that hot summer day when I was sitting by the window and through binoculars, deliberately looking for one wonderful sweet couple. I heard a woman’s laughter, and I looked around and finally saw them. Radiant delightful girl with golden hair - was all filled with an immeasurable stream of joy, quite noticeable wrinkles around her smile testified that she rarely ever sad, yearning. Her young man, quite a decent height and a pretty appearance of a young man, constantly hugged her, kissed her and, himself, almost burned with delight. They were lying on the beach, on sun loungers, looking peacefully into the sunny sky and talking, talking... they said slowly, nothing rushed them and no one disturbed them, as if the whole world was created only for them, and in their eyes there was a clear need for each other. What about me, being uncompromisingly struck at the same time by ambivalent feelings, deepest frustration and short-term joy for their happiness, I felt much more that seemingly long-hidden pain inside me. Immediately flashed the thought that I could not do more and can only silently watch the happiness of others, it is difficult in the depths of my soul to experience the bitterness of loneliness, having no one and nothing in my narrow dark world. At the same time, however, the terribly sick feeling that had prevailed over me a second earlier served as a kind of invigorating stimulus, thanks to which I decided to act surely and irrevocably. Hiding deep into the farthest corner of my soul all the pain caused by the thought of starting to live a truly happy, different life, I decided to act and began to apply my “creepy” but necessary talent. After watching them for a while, I finally came up to them with a smile and said, 'Dickie Greenleaf? It's me, Tom Ripley.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” is an action-packed, equal parts terrifying thriller and soul-touching drama, the story of a young and inconspicuous, but very difficult guy, Thomas Ripley. He never had close friends, a loved one, he is well known, but, unfortunately, the simple charms of life are unknown to him and he never felt real genuine human feelings. Not having enough money to live, being a miserable loner all his life, unable to realize himself as a person and live his own life, Tom Ripley is only an external human shell, inside which lives an unknown person who is used to constantly trying on the lives and images of other people, and this is her unsurpassed gift / curse. Possessing rare talents in the aggregate: forgery of other people’s signatures, deceiving people and sincerely skilful hypocrisy, one day, with the success of circumstances, Tom gets a unique opportunity to go to Italy on behalf of one of the richest people in America with the task of convincing him to return to the states of his son, Dickie Greenleaf, who, in turn, lives a serene, carefree and quite luxurious life. Giving a gentlemanly promise to his guarantor, Tom Ripley goes on a journey and, literally on the very first day of stay at the place, he easily manages to skillfully and cunningly enter the trust of rich Dickie and his girlfriend Marge. Thanks to his talents, giving only his real name, Tom, from the moment he met Dickie, completely plunges into someone else's life and everywhere he accompanies him. Tom every day becomes more and more like Dickie, but gradually Dickie himself begins to suspect something wrong in his recently “good” friend and, feeling the situation out of control, Tom decides to take Dickie’s place.
A truly masterful, soul-rending and tensing film by director and screenwriter Anthony Minghella was perfectly adapted from the original source, Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), for which he, as a director and uniquely adapted screenwriter, should be clearly noted and thanked for his hard work.
Among the noteworthy features of the film, it should be noted:
1) Well-chosen cast. All the performers of the roles ideally approached the embodiment on big screens of their difficult characters. In particular, we should note the triumphantly wonderful duet of the Academy Award-winning, charismatic and, without a doubt, talented actor Matt Damon along with the dazzlingly daring, unique and no less talented Jude Law. What is surprising, firstly, Anthony Minghell originally wanted to offer Tom Cruise the role of Tom Ripley. However, after watching the movie “Good Will Hunting” (1997), the director decided to invite Matt Damon, which of course our director did not lose. Second, Jude Law learned to play the saxophone, while Matt Damon learned to play the piano. Third, for the role of Tom Ripley, Matt Damon lost 30 pounds (approximately 13.61 kg) of weight.
2) Excellent musical jazz accompaniment of the whole film. Matt Damon’s piano lessons allowed him to reproduce the necessary piano applicature in the frame, but the piano music sounding in the film was recorded by professional pianists Sally Heth and Gabriel Yared (composer of the film). And the periodically sounding original soundtracks easily transport the viewer to the Italian era of the mid-50s, when jazz had a peak of wide popularity;
(3) Excellent combination in one film of many genres. Starting as a traditional drama, the film gradually acquires the character of a tensing thriller, which excites with its unpredictable development of events. Of course, the film did not do without elements of clearly noticeable melodrama, which flares up periodically.
The film is undoubtedly worthy of attention and a full 139-minute viewing by each viewer-connoisseur of an excellent movie, as well as for fans of philosophizing, who, after watching, will undoubtedly begin a heated exchange of views, both about the main characters and the plot, and about the entire film as a whole.
10 out of 10
What drove Tom Ripley? Why did he do such horrible things? That's what you need to understand in this film. You need to feel all the drama, otherwise you watched it in vain.
Another Z. Freud believed that there are 2 motives that cause our actions: sexual desire and the desire to be great.
William James said, “The deepest property of human nature is the passionate desire of men to be valued.”
John Dewey (American philosopher): The deepest desire of human nature is the desire to be significant.
This thirst for importance makes people great or makes people do terrible things. Nobody wants to be nothing. And Tom is no exception, so his life credo is: “Better to pretend to be someone than to be nothing at all.”
And one day he is exposed to the opportunity to travel around Europe, to feel a different life and change it, even for a while. Tom meets a rich son, Dickie Greenleaf, who had to convince him to return to the United States. They get along well at first. What unites them? Princeton, jazz... Italy ... and a little secret. But they are different and their friendship could not last forever.
Dicky — bright cheerful person, while he is interested in you, there is no one else for him, but only so far, he was constantly in search of something new. Tom More calm, mysterious, with his talents. Dickie felt something creepy about Tom, but was too light-hearted and was not careful in either words or actions, for which he paid. No one likes to be made miserable. Tom thought, if he had such a talent pretending to be someone, why couldn't he just be Dickie himself and live his life with dignity? From that moment on, his sense of self-importance exceeded even the instinct of self-preservation. To prove to everyone and himself his own importance, he went to terrible things.
Whatever a man does, the most terrible, the most cruel thing, he still justifies it. Have you ever met anyone who thinks they are bad?
- But your conscience still haunts you. It cannot be otherwise.
- Don't you lock your past in a dark basement so you never go there? That's what I do.
- In my case, it's a whole house.
So Tom is out of control, and the dark past reaches for him like a shadow. This basement isn't just the past, it's everything. Everyone has a dark side, a dark basement, we all walk on a blade. But the problem with the main character is that he stayed there forever.
Another point - Tom in the theater watching the opera "Eugene Onegin". And for a reason. The duel scene shows how the characters of the work are similar to Tom and Dickie. The two seemed different from each other. Similarities with the characters of the film can be searched for a very long time and found if you want.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Dickie said, Princeton is in a fog. America is all in a fog. And we remember the description of Lensky: "He from Germany is foggy // Brought the fruits of learning." There's something about it.
I was struck by the fact that people are starting to think that if you pay money or take someone's life, you can change your life any way you want. (Father pays Ripley for the return of Dickie Greenleaf, Jr., and then gives him a good sum of money.) He still wants to pay Tom to have such a perfect son. They don’t choose parents, but they don’t choose children either.
Finally, I want to say that yes, the film can be called a thriller, it keeps in suspense until the very end, but for me this film is primarily a drama. Why? Cheerful, who knows how to spend his father’s money even if incompetently, is Dickie, but who has a passion and a good taste for life and Tom is a person who finds neither recognition nor happiness and is not able to become useful to society. This is the tragedy of Tom Ripley.
So, if you want to see the drama, the thriller, to hear the exhilarating music to the core, then The talented Mr. Ripley> for you.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” is an unusual, interesting, and adventurous movie. This is a story about a young guy named Tom Ripley. "Man-mystery", from which, immediately, you do not know what is on his mind. He looks sincere, timid, creates a pleasant impression. However, as events unfold, he becomes a completely different person. Having been in a rich circle, Tom Ripley has a desire to realize himself among the rich. Trying on the image of Dickie Greenleaf, Tom decides to take the place of Dickie, thereby taking a big risk.
Actors. An important part of the success of this tape. Matt Damon did a great job, really. He embodied the image of a guy who at the beginning of the film was not particularly anyone, and by the end, Tom Ripley is successfully living for someone else’s life, and at someone else’s expense. His unexpected personality transformation was perfectly executed. Jude Law (Dickie) turned out to be a bright, lively character. A rich kid who lived off someone else's money. His gestures, facial expressions, movements were very funny. Gwyneth Paltrow (Marge) very well played the role of a simple rich girl who treated everyone sincerely, and just wanted to connect her life with Dickie. Supporting actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cate Blanchett looked good, and organically fit into the storyline of the film.
The main character can be described in different ways. Tom Ripley wanted to be noticed. In every way he tried to stand out, wanted to be loved. And he successfully achieved his plan, even exceeded it. The circle of faces that surrounded him only saw him constantly. And he had to pretend to be anyone and cover his tracks. He chose this crazy plan for himself.
The music in this picture is perfect. Beautiful jazz and saxophone - it was nice to listen. Matt Damon's song "My Funny Valentine" was a beautiful song.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” is a rather adventurous thriller, with elements of psychological drama, which attracts attention. A film that gradually reveals the inner world of the protagonist, his psychology, motivation of actions. The movie that leaves behind is a good aftertaste and makes a vivid impression.
I haven’t read the movie, but I consider it a masterpiece. Revisited it a dozen times, and each time, in terms of emotional experiences, was like the first.
Tom Ripley, performed by Matt Damon, is a negative character, in the course of the film there are no negative emotions to him. He's just a poor guy. He is read, resourceful, modest, charming. He is a decent man, quiet and reasonable. But he changes a lot when he meets and gets closer to Dickie Greenleaf – Jude Law.
Dickie, the exact opposite of Tom. He is reckless, quick-tempered, although very attractive. Easy to make new acquaintances, and very sociable. But in the course of the film, negative emotions appear to him, when he is very harsh and rude - he does not think about what can hurt others.
When a poor guy sees another life - rich, carefree and bright. He is very attached to his new friends. He even falls in love with handsome Dickie. And it is a great blow to him when he pushes him away.
And when the irreparable happens, Tom decides to "try on Dickie's face." He quickly gets into a new look. Marge began to suspect that something was going on, but clever Tom managed to trick her.
The film ends ambiguously. It makes you think about a lot. The picture does not let go, it keeps in tension even after the final credits. This merit of a magnificent plot, excellent directing, brilliant acting. All the actors were great Jude Law in general, one of my favorite actors, and how Matt Damon showed the transformation of a guy from a modest downtrodden piano tuner, into the king of life - the son of a shipbuilding magnate - it's just genius!
10 out of 10
The exciting, cruel and frighteningly emotionally calm Thriller Anthony Minghella “Talented Mr. Ripley” starring Matt Damon is a chic adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith, in which Matt became the main decoration.
The film goes more than two hours, but for every minute experienced by the viewer with the characters, the interest does not fade, because the events unfold, though not hastily, but with the arrangement, and the director does not ignore any corner of this dark story, leading the presentation so that we can admire not only the subtle mind of Tom Ripley, but also his resourcefulness and even cruelty.
Not to say that Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) was a unique guy, at least others did not see this uniqueness in him, but he knew that he was not like everyone else. And if you are not, you need to use it and make others do you well, and you, if possible, make the most of it. That’s what happened when Tom met Dickie (Jude Law) and his girlfriend Margie (Gwyneth Paltrow). He liked the life of a rich guy, but Tom himself was poor, but he's not like everyone else. Ripley decided that such a selfish and licentious person as Dickie has no place in this world and decided to take his place, simply getting rid of the person and taking his place. That’s only after a while, after he began to live under the name of Dickie Greenleaf, the first problems appeared: Margie, a longtime friend of Dickie, about whom he did not tell, as well as other “accidental” acquaintances now and then stood in the way of Tom, who decided in the end that one corpse would be bored and it was necessary to hide all the ends in the water.
The Talented Mr. Ripley invites the viewer to pay attention to the parasitic side of our society, in which people are located, not at all averse to living at the expense of others. Tom Ripley is the product of such a society, who decided to build his own well-being at the cost of the lives of others. As it turned out, then, that now young people want to get “everything at once”, completely unwilling to work on themselves and try to find a worthy place in life at the expense of their own efforts. It is much easier to take the wealth of another by force, the main thing is to make it with impunity.
It’s not that Tom Ripley is the only negative character here. Nope. It's full of others. The same Dickie - hot-tempered, arrogant spender with a constant change of mood, as they say, mad with fat from the fact that he does not know what to do, because a large amount of father's money available to his father, makes itself felt - Dickie plays with life. His girlfriend Margie is a nice girl, but not without a skeleton in the closet. She may love Dickie, but for the most part, her love is self-serving. Dickie is very rich. There is also a friend of Lowe's hero - Freddy Miles (Philippe Seymour Hoffman) - the same young hoodlum and reveler, a drug addict, a person who first says, and then thinks what he said and does not bother at all about whether he hurt a person with his own words or not. Another of the characters, albeit secondary, is a person with a non-traditional orientation. As you can see, Anthony Minghella’s story is not only a story about murder and profit, but also showed that the vices of society sometimes spill out, stick out ahead, demonstrating its weaknesses that need to be worked on.
The film is not only fascinating as a thriller, but also attracts with its beauty. Stunning views of Italy, combined with enchanting music cause a feeling of admiration, and the song performed by Matt Damon, Jude Law and Fiorello - Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano - it is simply stunning!
Undoubtedly, Tom Ripley is a talented young man who can draw and play musical instruments, pleasant in communication, positive and always open to candid conversations. That's just all his openness and desire disappear in an instant when he is pointed to his position. Don’t make Tom Ripley angry.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
Thomas Ripley is an unremarkable young man who lives in New York and makes a living playing the piano. But his real talent is not in his musical ability. Tom Ripley knows how to impersonate other people to make the best impression. He masterfully fakes other people's handwriting, imitates other people's manners and voice. But his ambitions are too tight inside the inconspicuous young man. And when one of the richest men in America, Henry Greenleaf, mistaken Ripley for a fellow student of his son, offers a round sum for a trip to Italy in order to convince the negligent son to stop spending his father’s money and return home to New York, the young musician realizes that his finest hour has struck. But soon even a luxurious life on the maintenance of the young Dickie Greenleaf will become unbearable for the inconspicuous Tom Ripley, because he will understand that it is time to use his talents and take the place of the son of an American rich man. Once a young sycophant finds his American dream on the shores of sunny Italy, but his ambitions will have to pay a cruel price to the people around him.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” is the second adaptation of the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith and the second film by Anthony Minghella, with which the director intends to win the hearts of both ordinary viewers and critics. Well, you could say that Minghella did everything he could to make it happen. To label the film “Talented Mr. Ripley” as “drama” and “thriller” would be completely unfair, since this picture changes its genre as the narrative unfolds, just as the main character changes his guises, turning from a modest and affable young man into a tough and cunning con man, on the way to his cherished goal, who knows neither pity nor elementary boundaries between permissible and unacceptable. If the first half of the film is a polished melodrama demonstrating the dolce vita of golden youth, spending money of wealthy parents in the ecstasy of carelessness and idleness, then the second part of the film is a crime thriller in which a young swindler will constantly be on the verge of exposing his deception, cunningly maneuvering between people, rubbing into their trust and playing on their expectations and emotions so deftly and at ease, as if playing musical instruments. Unfortunately, the first half is not as good as the second. The part of the film, which belongs to the genre of thriller, makes the viewer sit in the strongest tension, but the melodramatic part of the story can give the viewer to get bored, because for almost forty minutes it makes you watch the characters skate from one Italian city to another, discuss plans for further burning of life and complain about how they do not want to return to boring America. Nevertheless, we must pay tribute to the authors who skillfully make the viewer feel sympathy for all the characters, and especially for Tom Ripley, while not violating the integrity of the characters and not depriving them of their dark sides of personality. Separately, it should be noted the skill with which the director and screenwriters approached the creation of the image of the main character. A character who can not but cause rejection, makes you sincerely empathize with him. Through the efforts of the director, screenwriters and lead actor, he manages to “get into” the trust and sympathy of the viewer as deftly and imperceptibly as it does with other heroes of the film. And here one of the main advantages of the tape is manifested: the authors create such a lively and bright character that his charm and the mentioned “talent” to be liked by others goes beyond the screen. Absolutely disgusting in its essence, the character makes him want both fair retribution and successful implementation of his plans. The question of the homosexuality of the main character should perhaps be considered no more than the creative freedom of the director. However, intentionally or not, this aspect allowed the creators to make Tom Ripley even more lonely and alienated from the world, unable to find a creature that can be trusted enough to tell such hidden secrets.
Working with characters is not the only trump card of the film. The film demonstrates excellent camera work and good directing. But much more impressive is the musical accompaniment. Gabriel Yared created an amazingly soulful composition that creeps into the soul and does not leave the viewer for a long time after watching the film. Yared's music is close in sound to classical. In the scene of visiting the heroes of the opera, this approach to creating the soundtrack looks especially advantageous, because the opera shown in the theater is directly related to the events taking place in the life of the main character. And such an amazing harmony of the music of Tchaikovsky and Yared creates in the mind of the viewer a strong link between what is happening on the stage of the theater and in the life of Tom Ripley.
As a result, a generally strong picture was obtained, not without flaws in detail, or rather one drawback, which greatly spoils the overall impression "with other brilliant components." With a great acting, amazingly beautiful music, excellent camera work and a clever plot, the film badly lacks dynamics in the first half. When the viewer watches a story, he should understand why it is worth looking at this story, waiting for what will happen later. Protracted and almost devoid of any events, the exposition does not give such an understanding at all, forcing one to wonder as one looks at it: “And for what purpose is all this being shown to me?” Will there be further movement?” As the second half of the tape shows: “There will be another way!”, but delaying the wait in the case of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” does not play into the hands of the filmmakers.
7.5 out of 10
Tom Ripley is an ordinary poor kid who earns a living by small part-time jobs, lives in a dilapidated room and dreams of achieving something more. There are millions of them, quiet and useless. And when Tom is given the chance to change his life, he immediately takes it without hesitation. However, in his desire to become someone he goes too far.
I confess honestly, at first the film seems ordinary, albeit high-quality, drama, but in an instant it turns into a stunning psychological thriller in its intensity, which does not let go until the last credit and after which you sit in bewilderment and do not know how to continue living. It is permeated through the atmosphere of jazz and cigarette smoke in Italy of the 50s, the beauty of this incredible country, in some scenes - causing eroticism. Despite the fact that here they do not throw torn limbs and do not let anyone’s guts out – in some moments the film is horribly cruel. But the most important feature of this picture is that it is impregnated with some inexplicable creep enveloping your whole body, coming mainly from the character Matt Damon. Speaking of which. This is my favorite actor, who, after the James Bourne trilogy, was attached to the cliché "action hero." Therefore, for those who consider it such, I highly recommend watching this film, because here Matt is brilliant. Tom Ripley looks at him and you want to run away. Incredibly strong work, worthy of all awards and nominations.
Jude Law is also beautiful here, his Dickie Greenleaf is the personification of America of those times. A carefree burner of life, not thinking about the next day, and in general, not thinking about anything. His hero is stupid, which is why Tom beats him.
Also very important in the plot is the heroine Gwyneth Paltrow. Her character may seem like a female version of Dickie Greenleaf at first, but Marge is not as simple as it might seem. For me, this is the strongest work of this actress, with which she coped magnificently.
Small, but very professionally played roles were noted by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kate Blanchett. And in general, the entire cast will not make you bored.
Finally, I can say that “The Talented Mr. Ripley” is the perfect example of his genre, which will definitely appeal to fans to tickle their nerves and blow their brains. And yes, do not offend quiet and secretive people - they keep their secrets, which you better not know.
10 out of 10
It is one of the few films that leaves a mark on memory. And although the vast majority of reviews are positive, the perception of the events of the film and its characters is very different for different people. I was very surprised that many people saw Tom as a naive, seeking love and understanding young man, who is changed only by tragic events in life, as well as that many people empathize with him. they seemed not to hear Tom's initial recognition that his talent is a lie and the ability to pretend. And that's true, and that's the only thing he's been successful at. And his reasoning that he found in the person of Dickie brother and his attempts to show “love” of a different plan (the scene in the bathroom) is also another lie and provocation, as well as his love of jazz (which, in fact, fell for Dickie, originally not going to leave Tom in his house) When Greenleaf realizes that both jazz and fraternal feelings and everything Tom says and does is hypocrisy, for the sake of material gain. Tom was madly, mortally jealous of Dickie, his beauty, brightness, full of life, that he was surrounded by friends and women, that he was loved by everyone, envied his origin and condition. Tom is the complete opposite of Greenleaf: very ugly, poor, he has no friends, no one loves him, he does not, in fact, live his life. He is talented only by pretending to be someone else, living someone else’s life.
Dickie, with his passion for life itself, would be attractive to people even in the absence of money. Jude Law is great in this role. No wonder he received several awards for best supporting role. (Matt Damon won no award for his role as Tom) Before this film and the film "Sleuth" neither Lowe nor his beauty did not perceive. It was these two films that opened up to me the amazing actor Lowe. I didn't like the ending of the movie. It is nothing and worsens the impression of the film, as well as a completely unnecessary character - Peter. Apparently, the director introduced it to the picture only to once again emphasize the disgust of his antihero Ripley. In the film “Under the Bright Sun” based on the same novel, the ending is completely different, much more winning, and Peter is not in it. Ripley plays a young, frankly handsome Alain Delon. There, the emphasis is not on the contrast between Tom and Dickie, but on the contrast between the outside and the inside at Ripley. Both heroes are beautiful there. The concept of their relationship is revealed from a different angle, and events are presented more logically. Given that the film was made in 1960, it can rightly be called a masterpiece in every way. But this film is also great for its ambiguity. If it weren’t for the ending, it would be 10, but only 9.
I confess that this film left a very strong impression and made me think about many things. One of the main thoughts of the film is that everyone has his own little dark cellar 39, with his secrets, secret, sinful deeds, the key to which is safely hidden from everyone. It’s exciting to imagine, and it’s scary to realize that anyone can hide an endless number of such secrets, and you won’t know for sure what a person is. I will come back to this idea when I start describing the nature of the main character, believe me, this will be the most interesting part of the review. But the other thought of the film is that ' Every person is necessarily talented in one thing, even in the most insignificant.' This point of view has two sides, because it's not just the ability to use talent that matters, it's also the ability to understand what you're using it for, right? Based on the title of the film, it is clear that our hero is a gifted person, but his talents are not quite ordinary: forging signatures and the ability to impersonate anyone, and the main talent, perhaps, is the ability to carefully hide his own from everyone ' dark basement'...
I always associate talent with ease.
First, you can easily and easily do certain things, and secondly, if you can do it, then, accordingly, life becomes easier. Thomas Ripley lives at ease thanks to the ability to use his talents to the fullest to achieve his main goal - to live under the mask of another person. Intriguing, isn't it? Everything in order.
It is important to understand what Thomas Ripley is. Personally, it is appropriate for me to draw a very unexpected analogy of Thomas Ripley with the heroes of Russian classics: Rodion Raskolnikov and Belikov (' Man in a case'): together with Raskolnikov ' they relate themselves ' to those who have the right to cross a certain moral line, they are united ' fever of oblivion' from their actions, insanity, which is already a connecting thread with Belikov. The fact is that Ripley and Belikov (very funny to read these names in a bundle) are both in the so-called case, in which they found themselves at will, only Thomas’ case is not fear ' whatever happens' but precisely fear of what follows from his actions: misunderstanding who he really is, fear of loneliness, doomed to completely lose his own ' I' and be nobody. But Ripley is exactly ' nobody' you can't name it. After all, Matt Damon demonstrated a brilliant acting and managed ' to be reborn' in a complex, secretive, mysterious, sensitive, strange young man who knows how to masterfully manipulate people's lives, a man with the features of a real evil genius, not just a fraud. Damon has a very bright, contradictory personality, to which there is an irresistible antipathy from the middle of the film, when you gradually begin to unravel new features of his character. Our hero is the key link of all the twists of the plot, which do not cease to interest more and more, sowing in the soul & #39; fluttering & #39; intrigue. In my opinion, just the most interesting will be to trace the almost rebirth of the personality of the protagonist: from a guy who seems lost and broken by life circumstances to deftly maneuvering under their pressure!
The film is worthy, demanding attention, which will certainly make you think and even philosophize. The film has a rare sharpness of the plot, logic and a certain languid atmosphere of what is happening.
This film carries a message to think, to analyze the character of the hero and the logic of events, and this is one of the main messages of cinema, I believe.
Watch, think and enjoy the combination of beautiful acting and storyline!
It must be some kind of pathology. Complete inability ... inability, unwillingness? ... to find the fullness of life in one's own soul, the need to feed on someone else's blood, vampirism without mysticism, purely socio-psychological. As a result, the talent of mimicry, pretense, introduction into someone else’s life.
The swindler Tom Ripley may have been dissatisfied with this flaw in his heart, but he used it to the fullest, getting used to it, introducing himself, pretending to get rich. He once attached himself to another major, a golden boy whose rich daddy was ready to pay Tom ridiculous money, just to get his son back from the party. Tom Ripley masterfully screwed into the life of his victim, and everything went like hell. But -- this time something went off. Tom Ripley... oh, disappeared, fell in love, the glow of this supposedly fake gold blinded him, now he wanted to be with Dickie not for money.
It is not good for vampires to fall in love with their food.
Especially if “food” is a spoiled, saturated, cruel boy, heartthrob and burner of life. At first, Dickie was entertaining to communicate with a new acquaintance, exciting to provoke him and immediately push him away (the scene in the bathroom, oh, sensual and cruel game), and then Tom Ripley, all so “talented, mysterious, yearning, secretive, sad” and then on the text, became boring to him. Dickie played it.
And Tom Ripley did not bear the insults of his feelings (by the way, a rather petty, infantile and pathetic feeling, he was not capable of anything else by nature). And on this long plot of the film goes into action, events multiply, psychology retreats to the background, giving way to the front action.
I have not read the novel and cannot compare it to the original. The film itself seemed to me interesting, non-banal and perhaps somewhat shaky in the script - apparently, some tails from the book did not correspond to the need to observe timekeeping, and the story looks not integral, but a certain excerpt from life, with many random, insignificant details and episodes. As a result, it does not capture, is not perceived at all as a thriller, it is too calm in the lingering half-film set, and then from this lazy perception, the viewer no longer gets out at all the seemingly acute events of the second half. This is a drama, not a thriller, remember. And the fact that both heroes, to put it mildly, unpleasant people, personally prevents me from worrying about them.
Damon and Lowe played well, it was nice to see Blanchett, kind of disturbed the eye some anachronisms, all a little too modern looks, and generally do not emphasize the time frame of the events of the film.
But overall, good. I'll review it sometime.
All the time, it seems that being someone else is not only exciting, but also surprisingly simple. We get confused: at some point wearing a mask is just as boring as carrying the same jacket on your shoulders in the hot summer. I want to show myself, to open up to the full breadth of my soul - but what to do if you can not turn away from your real self except with disgust? There is only one way out - we mimic further, secretly improving in this art.
The story told in the film is surprisingly simple - it is about secret rooms and lost keys, a kind of classic of the genre of the misunderstood, who have something to tell, but no one to listen to. We have Tom Ripley, the unsavory guy of the most repulsive kind, who does not cause emotion at all. He's gray, angular and - the cherry on the image cake - completely unenthusiastic about his own personality. When he sees the rich, he sees the rich, and he sees the rich. A few lucky tickets from an old lady-luck - and Mr. Ripley gets into the society that so much seduced him, eating the blessings not even alone, but in the pleasant company of a true child of high society - handsome Dickie and his sweet bride. The image of Dickie distinguishing features to give yourself more expensive, so let's agree on the sun in cloudy weather - shines brightly, warms strongly, but all these joys do not last long, due to the windiness of nature and internal lightness. It is simply impossible not to fall in love with such a set of qualities and characteristics - but it is also dangerous to fall in love, no matter how twisted. And it is especially fearful to be fascinated by conditional “savages” to subtly feeling quiet romantics, not fondled by either attention or care. I think it won't be difficult to guess who Mr. Ripley is. And the consequences are not difficult to predict - it is like a loop and soap together to imagine.
Yet neither the dreary “Lonely Mr. Ripley” nor the alienated “Ruthless Mr. Ripley” became the title of the work, nor the many other variations that, for the sake of honor, were brought into the epileptic flickering opening credits of the film. Tom is a boy that is talented, and I haven't been lying about any of those words. The ability to forge signatures, voices, mannerisms and just a way of life gave him a way into the world, made those who we see at the end of the story. And we see – what makes us think – a morally destroyed and ruined several lives of a child who paid too high a price for his vision of happiness. "Tom has nightmares - that's not good." Tom will dream of them for the rest of his life, and he'll have to accept that. And - a funny fact - Mr. Ripley did not in any way pretend to be a local Raskolnikov with bitter thoughts about the rights to kill - no one can say that he hated what he destroyed. No, on the contrary, only from the big and bright (albeit dark) he went to the crime, and fate, irrepressible in its irony, generously repaid him for such a strong feeling, giving the opportunity to repeat his feat once more - apparently, the insidious aunt liked such a performance.
By the way, about Tom’s happiness – it will seem somewhat empty in words: money, trips to beautiful places and quality jazz. Perhaps Mr. Ripley’s talent was not more about how skilled he was. His skill, I think, goes much deeper – he’s one of the few who’s been able to fill that void with meaning and charm. As an option: he was fascinated by worthlessness and admired nonsense from the heart. Here it depends on the will of the viewer whether to consider climbing into someone else's costume as a manifestation of love or it gives away disgusting mercantilism. One thing is invariable - in the basements of the human soul, if some daredevil person sometimes wants to screw a light bulb to look around, then inadvertently he can turn his neck, rolling down a steep and very long staircase.
And also, just to think about what a great retro metaphor for the culture of television can serve as such a movie. Ripley’s humble imitator, indulging for the time being, for the time being, all desires shining from Dickie’s own greatness – like television following the “big brother who never was” – cinema. And, feeling the feelings, but to try on the role of a handsome man, even for a moment, was too strong a temptation. And who can say that Mr. Ripley played his Dickie unconvincingly? He even managed to win hearts.
It is no secret that modern cinema and literature are all very often limited to the stories of a kind of antiheroes, whom their authors try in every possible way to show full-fledged heroes of our time. Whether it is a less negative image of an ordinary cynical businessman from the cult work “DukhLess” by the writer Sergey Minaev, or a murderer who discovered life for himself again in the no less cult “Leone” directed by Luc Besson. When movies and works about real heroes and ordinary people become less and less common. But it is worth admitting that this picture of things has always been, and Thomas Ripley is clear proof of this.
After all, there is no other way to explain why the image of a swindler, a cruel killer and an evil genius in the person of Thomas Ripley has gained such great popularity among ordinary readers. Thus, becoming the source of a decent number of books under the guidance of the insanely talented and cynical Patricia Heimsmith. But it is one thing to create a vivid image and a strong story. Another thing is to decently transfer it to the wide screen and with this task the director of the picture Anthony Minghella coped certainly better than could be imagined.
Being one of the most powerful and talented directors of his time, the director of the film Anthony Minghella has always been famous for his aesthetic look even on mundane topics and this is perfectly reflected in this film. The film, which, contrary to the assigned genre of the thriller, provides the viewer with it from a completely different side. Very aesthetic, skilful, vintage and with bright shades of author's cinema, not the popcorn of cinema. The film is definitely winning. At the same time, without reducing the intensity of such a tense, intriguing and really exciting atmosphere of the film, which does not let go throughout the film.
Through the eyes of Anthony Minghella, Thomas Ripley finds on the screen exactly the image in which he appears when reading the works of Patricia Highsmith. A real empty shell that can exist only by sucking like a leech to bright, talented and charismatic people. It allows you to copy someone else’s life and live it. Because he is completely impersonal and more. It is commendable that the film directed by Anthony Minghella not only very widely reveals such a strong image, but also very voluminously fits the magnificent literary source of Patricia Highsmith. Shifting it on the screen without changes, but also bringing a lot of fresh moments of surprise. The story becomes even more confusing, exciting, intriguing, fascinating and no less intelligent.
This profound drama about love and hate, human loneliness and all-consuming envy brought to life a truly enviable star cast. The lead actor Matt Damon embodied on the screen just the perfect image of Tom Ripley. An ordinary boy, shy, pathetic, not loving anyone, not loved by anyone and looking for his place in the sun in this cruel world. Exactly the way he appears when reading Highsmith’s works and it is worth saying that this is by far the best role of Damon in his entire career. So strong that it is simply impossible to penetrate it.
Incredibly good and Jude Law, who apparently played himself real in real life. Bright, charismatic, obscenely rich regular parties and the subject of female temptations. Of course, as in the case of Damon, the best actor in his career is definitely. The cast is complemented by such magnificent artists as Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cate Blanchett, Jack Davenport and many others, from whose play even eyes ran out throughout the film. Since such a strong cast with bright images and a decent game I have not seen for a long time.
10 out of 10
The talented Mr. Ripley is a rare example of a truly thrilling, intriguing, mesmerizing, atmospheric, intricate and clever movie that perfectly combines elements of both human drama and razor-sharp detective thriller. At the same time, presenting the work as a work of art that you want to watch and revise it again and again.
History has already known characters like Tom Ripley. One of them was called Rodion and he lived in Russia in the century before last. Another, named Julien, lived around the same time in France. But the brightest, gave us Theodore Dreiser in the early twentieth. His name was Clyde and he was the father of all the other numerous Clydes, which include such charming personalities as Chris from Match Point by Woody Allen, Adam from Young Adam with Evan McGregor, and many others. But not everyone, like Tom Ripley, chose such an unusual way of satisfying his repressed desires, namely, the craving for idleness and universal adoration, the desire to be different from everyone else, and not to be at all, but to appear ... in short, the standard set of desires of any “no cattle”.
First appearing in the pages of the book of the same name, Tom Ripley, as if he really did not have a body, seemed disembodied, sexless, bloodless, resembling a shadow or a mirror. In Minghella’s film, he not only found a body but also obvious homosexual inclinations, which turned the insensitive character, who does not want anything but a beautiful life, into a touching man, desperate for not only wealth, but also love, which gave him a pathetic appearance, although he himself does not cause feelings of pity. Movie-Tom acts spontaneously, listens to emotions, which ultimately leads to a vague (but indisputably beautiful) ending and a lack of logic in some places. If the sudden scene in the boat with Dick (in the book, Tom planned everything beforehand) is explained by his thirst for love, his idolatry and desire for a response, then the final scene in which he receives that long-awaited love is completely unlogical. It seems that the authors have decided to combine the insensitive book-Tom with the sensual movie-Tom (who, in general, seems to have been created for the sake of revealing a homosexual theme) and it is quite understandable that none of this came out. It could have been an even stronger story about a guy who just wanted to be noticed.
Minghella’s film would be more sensible to call “Lucky Mr. Ripley,” since it is not about a man hiding in other people’s skins to hide his own rotten nature, but about a guy with an atrophied sense of guilt who is simply confused and who is corny lucky.
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" appeared in the world box office in the late twentieth century - in 1999. His budget of forty million dollars paid off three times. But it wasn’t just this success that made producers proud of their “baby.” Five Oscar nominations have stirred up film lovers. High rating of film critics, excellent ratings of ordinary viewers. In addition, the cast is full of popular names around the world. All this led to an unhealthy interest in “Mr. Ripley”, so that the veil of ignorance had to be incinerated in a matter of seconds.
Thomas Ripley (Matt Damon) is an inconspicuous guy in the United States. He is interrupted by unstable earnings and is looking for a path of happiness on his life path. One day a rich man came to visit his son, Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), in Italy and persuaded him to return home. Tom couldn't help but be interested in a thousand-dollar business trip offer. Arriving at the place, he meets his client and from this moment to the end of a long session in the film there is some incomprehensible nonsense.
The nomination of the American Academy of Motion Picture Sciences and Arts in the category “Best Screenplay” or “Adapted Screenplay” always inspire confidence in the picture, that is, the plot already promises to be smart and interesting. But beneath the shell of The Talented Mr. Ripley lurks a ludicrous and illogical narrative structure. At every step there are meaningless actions of the main character. If the vessel of his conduct were filled with reason and every action justified, it would be much easier to observe history. It seemed that both in the book Patricia Highsmith, on which the script was written, and in the adaptation of Anthony Mingel, the authors forgot about the simple rule of cinema – it should not be bored. Events should not freeze like cold, they must be heated on medium heat and at the right time bring to boiling. In fact, it turned out that everything came down to dialogues, in which the characters are not even revealed (which is already to say about the main character). You feel in everything the unnaturalness of events, stupidity and far-fetchedness. It all turned out to be so bad.
About the directorial work of Anthony Mingel, too, can be said – faded. He could not fill the film with interest, charge the atmosphere with emotions. “Talented Mr. Ripley” turned out to be a dummy in his hands, to which, as it turned out, no attention should be paid. He did his job so that the two-hour timekeeping turns into a five-hour torment, and after the beginning of the final credits you say: "Finally."
In conclusion, it is worth noting that “Mr. Ripley” is still a picture with some meaning. The idea in the film tells the viewer that each person should achieve something in life, become a person and have weight in society. Shows by the example of the hero what happens to a person who aspires to the higher strata. What happens when you want to remake yourself, to be someone other than yourself. This picture is not about talent, not about how to succeed. It is about everyone being themselves and doing what they are capable of. But all this is boring and uninteresting.
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" - the adaptation of the 1999 novel of the same name Patricia Highsmith. This criminal, dramatic thriller takes the viewer into an incredible, intricate story - the story of greed, prudence, envy, the story of Mr. Tom Ripley.
I admit I really like this movie. The film is psychological and looks anxious all the time. The film is decent and atmospheric, and I believe that this is an excellent and accurate adaptation of the famous, confusing and exciting novel.
In this story, we see Tom Ripley. He is an ordinary, poor man, but with rather broad ambitions. One day, one of the richest men in America asks Tom to find his son, who lives in Europe and spends his money left and right, and bring him home. Tom Ripley takes advantage of fate and travels to Europe. There he meets the son of a millionaire and his young bride. The life of young rich people fascinates Tom, and he prepares a cold-blooded plan for how to take the place of the rich son.
I watched this movie several times at long intervals, and each time I enjoyed watching it. This thriller is full of mystery and disagreement. Every scene is polished. Characters are not simple personalities, so this movie is interesting to watch. Tom Ripley was played by Matt Damon. He is a talented actor and this role is one of my favorites in his career. His crazy and thoughtful hero Damon played chic and great transferred the essence and contradiction of his hero to the screen. Golden youth is played by a beautiful duo Juda Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. Both of these actors are talented and interesting Hollywood stars, and it was nice to see them in this thriller. Everyone played clean, and the picture looked emotional and tense. In the second roles were "Kate Blanchett" and "Philip Seymour Hoffman".
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" is one of my favorite thrillers. The story of the film is exhilarating and shocking, and it was shown interestingly and excitingly.
Bright, dangerous thriller! Thank you.
It's all about being yourself, but Mr. Ripley doesn't think so.
You can try to characterize this film adaptation in one word, as Jude Law's character from this film would say - creepy. A very complex psychological thriller, about what an unusual thing, this very psychology of a person.
This film can undoubtedly be safely put in the section of the world classics of cinema. In the 90s, Hollywood made a lot of high-quality films, and this was another confirmation of that.
At first, the main character of the film seems quite banal. He earns little, spends from one part-time job to another and dreams of a better life. And now, by chance, he is faced with another opportunity to earn money, which will forever change his life. He travels to Italy to persuade a young man to return home to his parents. Having become friends and imbued with the warmest feelings for this very “burner of life”, as well as having felt a carefree existence, Mr. Ripley no longer wants to go back and then the most interesting thing begins. I won’t tell you anymore because I don’t want to spoil it.
The picture looks in one breath. Much attention is paid to questions of conscience and morality. There is a great psychological burden from watching. The main idea of the film, as it seemed to me, is to show the viewer how far a person can go to achieve his goals and what he is capable of keeping everything he has achieved (even in the most unfair ways).
The film was made very well. Italy of the 50s was transferred very qualitatively with the corresponding time, the post-war "Americanization" of the population. I haven’t read the book, but the script is amazing. As for the cast, it is just perfect. The actors perfectly got used to their roles and perfectly conveyed their feelings and emotions. Especially want to highlight Matt Damon, who just perfectly fit into the role of unstable and emotionally unstable person, and Jude Law, who deservedly was nominated for an Oscar for his role in this film.
As for the main character, personally I throughout the film he caused a variety of emotions, from sympathy and experience to terrible hatred and disgust.
The result is this, the picture is mandatory for viewing fans of all sorts of detective stories and thrillers, especially psychological, and in general, I advise everyone to watch.
9.5 out of 10