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‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins

The Rewatchables

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The Importance of Being Dickey

I was going to do some once age the best, but the big picture theme of the movie is you have this whole super wealthy culture that everyone else aspires to get to. The closest this guy can come is basically to infiltrate it with the stupid come go get my son and then pretending he's something he's not. He's also trying to protect things about himself that he wants people to know, but doesn't want to say out loud. I didn't include that because I felt like that scene they were trying like 10% too hard to establish some sort of sexual attention thing.

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