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[Meredith Logue has entered the chat room] A brilliant, if underrated, performance by Cate Blanchett of a character not seen in the novel. #ripleywatch
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I was a closeted gay teen in rural Tennessee when I first saw Ripley and his desperate desire to escape resonated with me deeply. And I mean, who doesn’t want an all-expenses paid trip to Italy? #ripleywatch
The. Swimsuit. The epiphanic moment of my baby gay years and the impetus for an entire generation of Fire Island day at the beach looks. #ripleywatch
Many say this is one of the best scenes of the film. I always found it a little meh, three-way allusions notwithstanding. #ripleywatch
“If you’re not at my place by 7:00, Tom and I are running off together.” Foreshadowing the darkness to come at the movie’s lighthearted high point. #ripleywatch
“Oh, I’m GAY gay.” - me in 1999 #ripleywatch
If you don’t become intoxicated by the decadence of Dickie’s life in Italy during their weekend in Rome, well I don’t know what to tell you. #ripleywatch
Ugh, everyone knows Freddy Miles. Tom’s nemesis and the cream of America, rich and thick. #ripleywatch
The moment things take a turn for Tom and Dickie. Dickie sees Tom for who he really is for the first time. And how long can any relationship between two bottoms really last? #ripleywatch
The confrontation. I usually skip over it. I know, I know, but I just don’t like watching the boys fight! #ripleywatch
Tom takes advantage of a naive Meredith to spin his web of lies. And yet, on a shopping spree with his best girlfriend, he’s living his most true self of the entire film thus far. #ripleywatch
The opera! That dress! The shameless flirting between Tom and Peter Smith-Kingsley! Get on an airplane to Rome and live out your Ripley fantasy the MOMENT this quarantine ends! #ripleywatch
We don’t yet know where the story will end, but the walls are narrowing in on Tom’s destiny. #ripleywatch
Tom crushing Freddy’s skull with some tacky faux-Roman antiquity feels like a fitting ending for our dear Freddy Miles. #ripleywatch
The two Tom’s diverge. Tom believes his destiny is clear now. He must kill the Dickie Greenleaf that still lives inside him. But alas they will meet again in the tragic final moments of the film. #ripleywatch
Tom is confronted with the tragedy of existence and the two Tom’s meet again. Its not a life he was born to, it will always be out of reach. The reality is a world that forces people like Tom (artist, gay) to smother their true selves for people like Dickie. #ripleywatch
Oh my gosh, that was fun! This pandemic is awful but I’m so happy I was able to share this film I’ve loved for 20 years with so many people. See you kids in Italy!
