Skip to content While the Chinese boxes of the story open and close, reveal themselves and return to the shadows, as well as explode the clear theatrical matrix of the film, the play of mirrors between the characters (Highsmith, Edward, Ripley, Clementine…) becomes more and more intense and pronounced. Maybe too much to really grasp the mystery of the ambiguity, ambiguity, and dark side that exists within everyone (according to Highsmith, but not only). However, a game that is subtly brutal and wickedly intelligent, with two-player moments almost modeled after the masterpiece that is The Unsuspected, works. always. It may not drag, but it’s never boring and it works.
Thanks to a very well-written text that captures the writer (of whom it would be advisable to read his sensational diaries recently published by La Nave di Teseo) and not only the literary question related to Ripley. Highsmith, played by Helen Mirren, makes certain sharp judgments about people, literature, intellectual circles and his present that seem specially scripted to be learned by heart by the willing audience.
It’s also thanks to the actors, Mirren, who is funny and a little giggling, but without exaggeration, Alden Ehrenreich, who is a mere sub-brand of Leonardo DiCaprio and Olivia Cooke is much more than a pretty figure placed there.
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