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Ripley (2024)

2024 · Crime,Drama,Thriller · crime-psychological-profiler, period-near-history

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Ripley is a visually rarefied Netflix prestige crime drama — shot entirely in luminous black and white — following the coldly amoral con man Tom Ripley through 1960s Italy as he kills, deceives, and reinvents himself. Steven Zaillian's direction is painterly and unhurried, treating every frame as a composition and every silence as meaningful. Andrew Scott's performance is the show's gravitational center: neurotic, precise, and deeply unsettling. The show rewards viewers with patience for slow-burn psychological tension, noir atmosphere, and moral ambiguity — asking audiences to root for a man with no conscience. It sits in conversation with all prior Highsmith adaptations and is received by reviewers as a genuine artistic achievement.

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what is so memorable about this is how it looks. Over the years films and TV shows have often tried to be arty, frequently resulting in pompous and cringy pretentiousness. Without wanting to sound pretentious myself, this is the truest most beautiful piece of art I've seen for many a year.
The genius of this production is that we find ourselves rooting for Ripley, a thoroughly detestable human being. He's got no redeeming features whatsoever yet as much as we grow to passionately detest him, we find ourselves hoping against hope that he's going to get away with it all.
Andrew Scott is the perfect actor for the part. Having just seen him in quite a different role in "All of Us Strangers", I was reminded what a versatile and compelling actor he is
I loved that it was shot in atmospheric black and white (fantastic cinematography, every frame a piece of art!), I loved that this version was slow, I loved that it was so dark, I loved the sardonic humour.
Steven Zaillian's version is truly wonderful. He has de-glamorized it. The whole thing. The story, the characters. Andrew Scott is like a replicant. No emotions, not even a hint of them. Invisible. As a consequence we do all the work. We gasp or look away. He just goes on.

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