ripley
spooky entertainment
season 1
Episode 7
Editor's rating
Photo: Lorenzo Sisti/Netflix
Tom Ripley's face was devoid of emotion when he hit Dickie Greenleaf with an oar and Freddie Miles with a new glass ashtray, but he was clearly nervous from the first time they met. In the first episode of his ripleyAs Tom jumps through a series of hoops to escape George McAlpin's grudge, he continues to look over his shoulder, suspicious of what is going on behind him. In Atrani, everything, stairs and water, made him nervous. Now that he has killed two men, the police officer makes him fidgety, no matter how (in)interested he is in his movements. It's not ideal for Inspector Lavini to remain in Rome, where his day job is, but I wonder if it's in his best interest to disappear to Palermo to avoid being investigated. But at least there he can try to resume some of the normal life of the Dickie Greenleaf era. He goes back to reading the newspaper in the cafe and looking for Caravaggio.
In Rome, Inspector Lavini continues his work bravely. He left a cryptic message for Dickie at the Hotel Parma in Palermo, stating that he had been looking for him but that he had no intention of calling back. Meanwhile, he humbly climbs the stairs to Marge's house in Atrani. The facts of the investigation are full of what at first glance appear to be red herrings. A man called Enzo looks up at the inspector and says he saw two men in his neighborhood late at night – Tom and the already dead Freddy – struggling into a car. , hearing the news of the murder, he thought he might have seen something important. However, Enzo, who was also walking a dog named Enzo, remembers almost nothing, and the inspector's patience is running thin. (Between saying goodbye to Lucio, the cat in Tom's building in Rome, and twisting his nose at the original Greenleaf summary that hangs on Marge's wall, this inspector is completely me. It captured the hearts of people.)
Marge does a little research of her own from Atrani. Matteo at the post office tells Dicky that an urgent letter has arrived from the bank for Dicky, but he hasn't received it and hasn't given him a forwarding address. Interrogated by Inspector Lavini (completely out of breath) at Atrani and later in Rome, Marge doesn't mince words about her impression of the missing Tom Ripley. She said she would be surprised if he had anything to do with Freddie's death, not to mention that he was “the kind of person who took advantage of other people,” especially Dickie, not to mention that lying was “his job.” Probably not. When the Inspector frowns at the fact that Dickie and Marge are clearly a married couple living in different cities, Marge explains that they're both taking time to work on their art… and anyway, she… He explained that he had seen Tom Ripley in Rome with what he had. Two eyes. I also felt kind of bad for Marge. Her dishes are piling up in the sink, and it's clear that Dickie is still holding out hope that he's only temporarily lost his mind and that it will all blow over soon. After she gives him a pretty good “please, you have no idea how hard this is for me” look, the inspector tells her where she can go to Dickie in Palermo.
Tom is relentless in his campaign to clear the name of everyone involved in Dickie's life (except for Marge, who he actually hates like the flames of a thousand suns). He told the Greenleafs that he was so overwhelmed by the investigation's treatment of him as a suspect that he decided to spend some time away from Rome, and that his only consolation in these “dark days” was the heroic It is said that it came from a person who Tom Ripley. While Tom is soaking in the bathtub, he is visited by his interlocutors, Marge and Dickie, who are rehearsing the story he has to go through. I previously wrote in the summary for episode 5 that Tom is in limbo in a one-man show, in which he is acting, writing, and directing a play in which he is the only audience member. But how does the nature of his performance change as his imitation deepens?
Imagine what would have happened if everything had gone according to Tom's plan. He “didn't have to” kill Freddy, Marge would have successfully reaped the benefits, and Mr. Greenleaf and his wife would have been content to interact with their only son through correspondence alone forever ( I think Tom's worst idea in this matter is) everything). In that scenario, Tom's performance of Dickie would have existed primarily for his own purposes. Dickie necessarily had to be cut off from his life as before, so his new life, personality, connections, emotions, and tastes would be something Tom invented. In the novel, Patricia Highsmith gives Tom, who plays Dickie, a brief moment of social flourishing before the inspector catches up with him. He is invited to a party and asked to interact with the wealthy expat community. However, Tom knows it is too dangerous, so he fantasizes about Dickie's life somewhere unknown. Only in that scenario could he be able to share his Dicky with others and finally complete his transformation, which for now had to be controlled by a conscious hand. There are also other famous fictional characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Tyler Durden. fight clubAnonymous Narrator, Share Measures united nationsConsciousness: The great discovery is that these people are one and the same. Achieving an identical state is part of Tom's ambition, but to get there he must extend his arms and embrace Dickie.to do Get used to it Dicky, he must know how to control him, how to manipulate him to his ends. That's what he accomplishes by writing every letter and revising his point of view.
But can he? Will he be able to escape in his final transformation, especially when Inspector Lavini becomes convinced that Tom Ripley is missing?something keeps coming Up. Now, the Wendell Trust Company is conspiring with the Bank of the Republic in Naples to warn that Dickey's January remittance check may have a forged signature, and they need Dickey's access to verify it. . Oh, and just to be sure, I've reported it to the police. Tom made it all the way to the bank line before he could be deterred. Instead of following the bank's instructions, he decided to write a letter stating the obvious. He said, “If he had forgotten to pay the check, he would have told the bank.'' Tom's Dicky has a remarkable disregard for authority, not only failing to report to the bank but also changing hotels without informing Inspector Lavigne as promised. To make matters worse, nosy tabloid journalists have been after him ever since a front page headline announced him as a murder suspect. If he had been as careful as he was in the days after Dickie's murder, he would have bought a newspaper and read that Dickie was suspected not only of Freddie's murder, but also of Tom Ripley's murder.
The Palermo police are asked to help track down Dickie Greenleaf, but the Sicilians are frustrated that Inspector Lavini has to do the heavy lifting of finding him in order to deliver the message they were unable to deliver. ing. The reason he didn't have to call Dickie back was because he wanted Dickie back to Rome, just like Marge (he only needed to climb the stairs once). The Sicilian detective tells Tom that there will be serious consequences if Dickie fails to turn himself in to the police inspector in Rome. Tom promises Dickie that he will be there tomorrow. It's interesting to imagine a direct line between Tom's impatience with logistics and his bureaucratic role in investigating crimes.Regardless, everyone is just pissed off at the amount of work they have to do what Kind.
With the investigation closing in on him, it seems no longer a coincidence that the inspector is determined to find Tom Ripley. At first it may have seemed like a lucky diversion, they would put all their energy into searching for a man who apparently no longer exists, but now it's a problem. Because Tom needs it.Prove that Dickie did not kill Tom during his stay both Dicky and Tom at the same time. Checking out of a hotel in Palermo after being bitten by a Sicilian detective, Tom asks the receptionist when the upcoming ferry departs. He wants to know when the next ferry will go to Tunis. After securing a schedule, he says out loud to everyone, “It's okay.” He buys a ticket to Naples at the port terminal. The increasing pressure is starting to turn the old gears in his brain again. From Naples he takes a train to Rome, where he sneaks into an old building and packs up all of Tom Ripley's belongings. He writes a heartfelt letter to her landlord saying that he has to give up her apartment and thanking her for her kindness.
Tom goes from Rome to Venice. He stuck his head out of the window like a dog as he glided through the canals of the city of love, and the look of childlike wonder appeared on him again, as if he had just embarked on the most exciting journey of his life. blushing. Macabre Entertainment truly captures the spirit of Ripley. many It details the plot without losing the specificity and narrative tension that draws our attention to Tom's perverse logic. By the end of the movie, I couldn't help but find myself on the side of the bad guys again. Tom Ripley's psycho serenity is back, baby! It is the calm, contented face of a man with a plan.
The only laugh that has come out of Tom Ripley's mouth in recent days is the letter Marge writes to Dickie in an attempt to say goodbye to him, in which she finally definitively calls him gay. I called it. Harting Marge is one thing At least that's what Tom has been doing since Freddie Miles came knocking on the door.
• Whenever Tom receives a letter containing bad news, Steven Zaillian speaks directly to the letter writer, as if they are speaking to Tom through us, even though they are not necessarily important characters to the story. Notice how I'm pointing the camera at it. In “Macabre Entertainment”, a bank representative calls Dicky to confirm the signature. Every time I see the man behind the big desk, ripleyI think, Let's go…