Do you have a hard time getting into your circle of friends?
Nowadays, there is a popular word on the Internet called "licking the dog", which is placed in the friendship relationship, that is, you pour out your heart and lungs for him, but he turns his head and calls you nobody.
Today, let's review a classic crime thriller movie with you, which is about the story of licking dogs with inferiority and vanity -
Genius Ripley
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Released in 1999, this film is adapted from the novel of the same name, and Cass is placed in the present, each of which is a hollywood super-first line.
Damon was really cute back then, and JudeLow's hairline wasn't as lost as it is today.
Not to mention the heroine, the Great Demon King, Kate Blanchett, and the Little Pepper Gwyneth Paltrow, were both goddesses with dazzling auras at that time.
Of course, if you want to do the best acting, it must be Matt Damon.
Because some netizens said that ripley, who he played, can be hailed as one of the most annoying male protagonists in film history.
Also, Ripley can see it 20 years later and still win the audience's resonance, which is enough to prove that such a character has always existed in real life.
Ripley is a poor student, who can play the piano but is not high, wants to turn over but is struggling to get out.
In the United States in the 1950s, such young people grabbed a lot, but Ripley seized the only opportunity -
While playing the piano at a banquet for the wealthy, he accidentally met a shipbuilding tycoon.
Ripley was wearing a school uniform borrowed from a friend, and coincidentally, the school happened to be the same as the tycoon's son.
Since he is an "alumnus" of his son, he must talk more.
However, Ripley obviously did not know the tycoon's son, but in order to be able to talk to the tycoon, he made the gods nod.
Seeing that Ripley's appearance was quite honest, the tycoon wanted to ask Ripley to do a favor, go to Italy to persuade his son to come back, and if he succeeded, he would be paid $1,000.
For $1,000, a poor man like Ripley, there was no reason to refuse the price.
Before leaving for Italy, Ripley shut himself in the door listening to jazz repeatedly, as he had heard that dick, the tycoon's son, seemed particularly fascinated by jazz.
Sure enough, as planned before, he used his hometown terrier to create a chance encounter with Dick in a foreign country, and successfully climbed into a relationship with Dick by relying on his three-inch tongue.
In addition to being particularly good at looking at people's eyes, Ripley is also good at imitating others.
In order to gain Dick's trust, he imitates the tycoon's tone and entrusts the tycoon with the money he paid.
Making friends is making friends, and Dick was impressed by Ripley's sincerity, so he let down his guard and left him in his mansion for a while.
Here, Ripley truly appreciates the class difference.
Dick doesn't have to do anything, he can have endless money to spend every day to have fun.
And he, in addition to the shirt jacket on his body, was left with the pair of glasses that were exploding.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Ripley suddenly substituted himself for Dick, imitating his tone of voice, and his expression was full of strangeness.
Ripley sank, and he felt that becoming a nemesis with Dick was an opportunity for him to jump out of the poor circle and jump into the upper class.
So he had no intention of mentioning jazz, but also praised Dick's taste.
Dick took a bite, and jazz became an important turning point in the relationship between the two people.
Next Dick takes Ripley to an Italian underground bar, where champagne beauties, erosive intoxication, and the ultimate fantasy of poor dick become a reality at this moment.
However, the intimacy of the two people is broken with the arrival of a third person.
This man, like Dick, was a celebrity, but unlike Dick, he was very repulsive to Ripley, just as the rich rejected the poor.
Soon, Dick was playing with his friends again, and naturally he snubbed Ripley.
In order to regain his friendship and regain the upper class that he had so hard to climb, Ripley began to become as active as a competition for favors.
For example, spying on Dick's private life, stealing his clothes, and even saying something loyal.
However, such an almost perverted behavior, instead of making the relationship between the two people as close as ever, made Dick hate the poor man more and more.
In the end, Dick decides to send the pesky "uninvited guest" away.
This shocked Ripley, who poured out his lungs for this friendship and was desperately obsessed with Dick, only to get an understated "We are not the same person".
Tragically, Ripley did not realize that the gap between him and Dick was not something that he could fill by taking the initiative to please him, so in a fit of rage, he accidentally killed Dick.
It was an accident, Ripley wanted to go back to the hotel to pack up his things and run away, but the hotel attendant mistook him for Dick.
This gave Ripley an inspiration to take its place when he couldn't get what he wanted from Dick.
He forged a series of documents, then put on Dick's clothes and used his signature to go to the bank to pick up the check.
The process went very smoothly, not even a single person doubted.
Ripley was floating, and what had once required begging to get it was now entirely its own.
The self-confidence that this identity brought to him made his greedy face completely exposed, and he became more confident and more arrogant.
He began to hook up with rich women, taking Dick's life experience on himself, going to the opera to experience a life of high class that he had not experienced before.
However, Dick's good friend, the celebrity prince, appeared.
Seeing that his identity was about to be exposed, the male protagonist simply killed Fu Er Dai without stopping, and disguised his body as a car accident.
By this time Ripley's hands were stained with the blood of both men.
Faced with a police investigation, Ripley had to continue to lie to cover up his crimes.
But Dick's name is very loud in the circle, solving this one, there will always be the next one who will come to the door to expose Ripley's identity.
In order to get out, he thought of a foolproof solution. He forged Dick's handwriting to write a letter.
The letter blames The Rich Second Generation's death on Dick, and then declares that Dick has committed suicide with a sentence of "Goodbye to the World".
Ripley's plan was perfect, fooling the police into lying to Dick's father, but not Dick's girlfriend.
Because the girlfriend found Dick's personal belongings at Ripley's apartment.
But with no evidence and no one else believing it, she watched Ripley get away with it.
Ripley has now completed a perfect escape, of course, all this is not easy for him.
Although Ripley does not have the plot of an inner monologue, it can be seen from his attitude towards Dick that he genuinely regards Dick as a friend, even surpassing friends (Ripley's sexuality has always been a fan).
Dick, however, described Ripley as a "leech."
The contempt for the people of the lower class undoubtedly broke the last self-esteem of the male protagonist, which would make him live from love to hate and finally kill Dick.
Later, Ripley became acquainted with Peter, who was also obsessed with piano.
Peter is also the son of a rich man, but he is not as arrogant as Dick, he is low-key and gentle, and he also appreciates Ripley.
So Ripley changed the guide into the circle of the rich to Peter.
This time Peter poured out his heart and lungs for Ripley, but Ripley did not choose to open his heart like he did to Dick.
While traveling by boat with Peter, he accidentally bumps into the girlfriend he hooked up with when playing Dick, and the circle of the upper class is so small, and the rich woman and Peter are still old acquaintances.
Once the two men meet, Ripley's disguise of Dick is revealed.
Ripley once again sided with the devil, choosing to continue to cover up the truth.
Since the rich girl boarded the boat with the whole family, Ripley could only attack Peter, who was alone...
Unscrupulous for the sake of the end, in order to satisfy his vanity, for the sake of pathetic and pitiful desire, he dragged himself into the endless abyss with his own hands.
On the surface, this is the Rashomon caused by the overturning of a friendship boat, but in essence it is a bloody case caused by Ripley's inferior vanity.
Genius Ripley, but Ripley is not a "genius", he is just good at disguise.
Because only living in a lie is the moment he comes closest to his dream.