The Masterful Mr. Ripley
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010"The Talented Mr. Ripley" is an Hitchcockian and blood-curdling ponder of the psychopath and his victims. At the mid-point of this master-work, set in the exquisitely self-indulgent scapes of Italy, is a titanic confrontation between Ripley, the aforementioned psychopath protagonist and minor Greenleaf, a consummate narcissist.
Ripley is a cartoonishly third-rate young mature whose most important [...]