is quietly thrilling, like a black spider in the night, weaving a strange web of suspense.
Black and white image, the exquisite and complex huge statue exudes divinity, the long spiral staircase extends sin, the man in black drags the heavy corpse down the steps, on the bench in the corner of the hall, the cat sitting upright is watching the fire, knowing All secrets.
Netflix's drama version of "Ripley" is written and directed by Steven Zaillian, starring Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, and Johnny Flynn. It has a Douban score of 8.7. The
series is adapted from the novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley", which has been adapted into many movies. The 1999 "The Talented Mr. Ripley" starring Matt Damon and Jude Law is the most famous.
Netflix produced the same story into an 8-episode series this time, removing all colors and telling a classic crime story with all black and white images.
Although there is no color, it gives people a sense of brilliance. The light and shadow are so dazzling that they hook the eyes of the viewer from beginning to end. Italy shows its gorgeous beauty in the interlacing of light and shadow and the contrast between light and dark, and the charm in the shadows. Longing, the flower of sin blooms in the cracks of human nature.
Tom Ripley is a liar who is struggling to make a living in New York. He is good at forging various documents and documents to induce victims to pay more liquidated damages into his account.
One day, a private detective was entrusted by Mr. Greenleaf to find Ripley. Greenleaf's son Dicky has been wandering around for many years. Considering that his son is not young, Greenleaf hopes that his son can return to New York to find a job or inherit the family business.
But his son did not have this intention, so Greenleaf hoped to find a lobbyist among Dicky's friends to persuade Dicky to return home.
Greenleaf found Ripley, willing to pay all his expenses and an additional salary to send him to Atrani, Italy, to persuade Dicky to return to New York.
After Ripley came to Atrani, he found that Dicky lived a very romantic and comfortable life, living in a mansion, painting, and sunbathing on the beach with his beautiful girlfriend.
Ripley's openness and honesty made Dicky feel good about him and invited him to live in his home.
When Dicky was not at home, Ripley would enter Dicky's bedroom, put on Dicky's clothes, and imitate his speech, but was accidentally caught by Dicky.
Dicky's girlfriend Maggie doesn't like Ripley out of intuition, thinking that he is a person who takes advantage and may be detrimental to Dicky, so the two discuss letting Ripley leave.
And when Dicky spoke to Ripley, the story developed like a waterfall.
Ripley came to Atrani and lived in Dicky's life like a parasite. He was obsessed with Dicky's lifestyle, including his not very good paintings, his beautiful pens, neat suits, and his words. The way.
When the parasite found that his parasitic career was about to end, he did not even hesitate to devour the host and replace it.
What followed was the trouble brought by Dicky's friends. After the decisive and calm murder, there were endless visits and investigations by the police.
Ripley's murder was not clever, nor was he skilled. It was improvised, and the handling process was actually full of loopholes, but he was a liar who was good at lying.
He is an antisocial personality, and his sense of morality does not exist in him. At the same time, he is good at disguising, taking advantage of the weaknesses of human nature, weaving illusions, and gaining trust.
He has been taking the trouble to say good things about himself to Dicky's parents and girlfriend through letters, as Dicky's identity. At first, it was funny to see him always praising his actions, but I didn't understand until the end. , these kind words about Ripley, repeated from time to time, played a crucial role in winning the trust of the other party and even the final "golden cicada escapes from the shell".
Ripley is a thoughtful liar who is good at observing human beings, imitating human beings, peeking into people's hearts, and then playing with people's hearts, dancing a sinful dance in the blind spots of human nature. Relying on this extraordinary skill, he changed his destiny, from a liar struggling to make a living, to a respectable and wealthy man.
In the play, Caravaggio's paintings appear many times and become Ripley's mirror life.
In other words, Ripley learned Caravaggio's philosophy of life and aesthetic style from his life and art.
Ripley gazed at Caravaggio's paintings many times in churches and other places.
This deviant painter entered his peak period of artistic creation after killing his friend.
Ripley imitated Dickey in front of the mirror. In his own life, he imitated the painter Dickey introduced to him-Caravaggio.
If Caravaggio's art is painting, then Ripley's art is his skill in deception.
Before coming to Atrani, he was just an ordinary liar. When he came to Atrani and met Dicky, he was obsessed with everything Dicky had. After killing Dicky, his deception began to take off. peak.
When Ripley was staring at the painting in the church, a priest came over and said: "Light is always the soul of the painting."
This sentence also applies to this movie. After
separated the color, this black and white image brings the role of light to the extreme. Between light and darkness, black and white, an extremely exquisite and gorgeous world is constructed.
Here, in a minimalist form, the most intoxicating scenery of Italy is displayed, including statues and paintings of gods, huge buildings, and spiral staircases. At the same time, it also explores the deepest and tortuous human nature, sincere goodwill, false lies, and darkness. The killing, the cold crime, and the ultimate deception.
's drama version of "Ripley" transforms a classic crime story into an extremely artistic video world in a high-end way.