In the long and fabled chronicle of movies that Matt Damon has performed during his illustrious Hollywood career, there is one role that stands out above the rest in demonstrating his astounding acting prowess. I’m referring to the way Damon brilliantly played the part of a pathological liar in “the Talented Mr. Ripley” and movingly conveyed how a sociopath was able to deceive a litany of people in order to gain access to the closed societies of the uber wealthy and the amenities they enjoy by virtue of their riches.
The way Tom Ripley was accepted into the the upper strata of the aristocracy was by donning a green Princeton coat in order to bamboozle a shipping magnate who eventually paid him to convince his son Dickie to return to the United States mistakenly believing that Tom was his son’s classmate. What many fail to see is that “the Talented Mr. Ripley” was a incisive critique of the way human beings accept soulless grifters as leaders by virtue of their titles, white coats, wealth and status. The unhealthy idolization of personalities and the way we degrade ourselves to worship sociopaths will eventually be the death of us the same way that Dickie was killed by Tom Ripley after accepting a snake as a friend...continued...
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