Matt Damon delivers an o so compelling performance in this intelligent thriller but is this fancyboi, this Mr. Ripley someone that readers should admire as prototype? I mean look at him in a smart pair of lime-chartreuse swim trunks (US $30) posing in front of a canvas beach umbrella ($200) and wearing with casual fierceness a windswept swoop haircut across his forehead (priceless). A classic beach look indeed! But a touchstone of the fop is that his look is genuine and consonant with his inner esprit. Not some affected costume he parades around like a husky kindergartener dressed as a jackolantern on Halloween. No Mr Ripley is not pure fancy but an evil foil who mimics our primo Princetonian expat Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) as part of a sexual quest to lure him from Marge (Gwen Paltrow). There shall be no dandies in my nostalgia of the 1950s Italian Riviera!
Final verdict and relevant haiku:
With x-ray vision
Marge undoes ur belt and sees
Eww Gross! Dandy pants.
A nice turn of phrase
ReplyDeleteDandy pants on Mister R
Un-mellow yellow.