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A true movie. An incredibly beautiful film, filled with sensuality and the atmosphere of serene youth, when life seems endless.

Moisture, stone, color, drafts, faces, bodies - all this is so beautiful that it takes your breath away. This film is like the sea, like falling in love, like a fresh spring wind - it is so beautiful that tears come to your eyes. After all, youth, when we easily make the wrong choice or "selflessly surrender to despair", passes so quickly.

In my opinion, Paolo Sorrentino is the greatest director of his generation.

No wise conclusions - only huge gratitude to all those who created this film: for returning to youth, for the feeling of the beautiful fleetingness of being...

The biggest negative for me is that young Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's book - a hero dramatic and naive, charming and destructive, very, very versatile in the virtuoso performance of Matt Damon - turned into just an old and angry loser. Andrew Scott is a talented actor, but where is the charm of youth and passion for life? Here Mr. Ripley is just a nasty petty thief - would you let someone like that into your home? And Dickie Greenleaf sees and understands people (like his father), why then did he trust this man, from whom immediately wanted to stay away?

The main thing is that, as a big fan of the text, it seems to me that the image of Ripley in the book is deeper than what is embodied here. He is not just a sociopathic maniac - this is too simple a reading - Tom wants to be loved, wants to escape from the bottom of life (but at what cost...) But I want to watch the series to the end because of the passion of the director and cameraman for this story. And also because of the masterful work of other actors - especially the cruel-eyed Dakota Fanning and the charismatic and, at the same time, annoying Eliot Sumner (although after the incredible performance of Seymour Hoffman, I could not imagine another; but Eliot's Freddy - is super!) The black and white solution is intriguing - I was wondering when color would appear? (and, I admit, I didn't guess right).

If we abstract from the book, from the films of Minghella, Wenders, Clement, then the series is a masterpiece - but my experience says that it is the book and the 1999 film that are real masterpieces. But this wonderful series, no, did not reach the level of a masterpiece. While there is a lot of fun to be had in watching it, it is a masterful work.

A stunning exploration of the banality of evil centers on Ernest Burkhart, played brilliantly and powerfully by DiCaprio. Sometimes I blinked and saw not an actor, but a real criminal from black and white photographs of the century before last - limited, evil, greedy, with the face of degradation. And most importantly, he is a master at lying to himself.

This is amazing - how can you feel good while killing your wife's relatives, the mother of your children? How can you believe that you are a loving husband (he believes, that's what's amazing!) when you inject your wife with a drug that clearly makes her worse. I had a strange association that Ernest, as if under a magnifying glass, showed the same effect of a split psyche as the population of totalitarian aggressor countries, whose population also convinced and continues to convince themselves of their innocence. That evil manifested with their consent is the will of God (or the leader, or the will of the uncle) - and I am actually not a monster (approving genocide, committing bloodshed), not a murderer, I am good. I take care of my wife. I injected her with poison and then carefully combed her hair... DiCaprio and Scorsese brilliantly embodied this character. It's a banality of evil that's impossible to believe and that sucks Molly in like sticky swamp mud.

But I admit, I couldn't watch the movie without interruption. I needed a drink, a snack and just to get up. Although the direction and cinematography are beautiful and I didn't get bored, it was physically difficult for me to spend so much time sitting in front of the screen. As a book publishing editor, I know that authors are against abbreviations - they worked a lot on the text. But often the book (film) only benefits from this.