Tom Ripley is a young man in this film struggling to make a living like most of us. He was bribe to play a role of a Princeton guy who just broke his hand and couldn’t play. While playing the piano in this cocktail party he met Herbert Greenleaf a wealthy shipbuilder who mistake Ripley and believes that he attended Princeton with his son Dickie’s, because he is wearing a borrowed Princeton blazer for the cocktail party. Greenleaf recruits and pays Ripley $1000 dollars to go to Italy and bring his son Dickie’s back to the United States. Tom Ripley in this case uses his “talents”; forgery, lying and impersonation.
Ripley’s is a homosexual who revealed himself to his parents which had a bad reaction to the news and did nothing but throw him out of their house. Ripley now struggles to get through his life being alone and without his family so he decides to search for a new true love. Ripley travels to Italy, where he fakes an …show more content…
He immediately realizes that he can assume to steal Dickie’s identity and forges Dickie’s signature, modifies his passport and begins to live life off Dickie’s trust funds. He makes sure he checks himself into two hotels to give the impression that Dickie’s is still alive. While Marge thinks that Ripley is impersonating Dickie’s. Tom is later caught by Freddy (a friend of the real Dickie’s) and is killed by Ripley to cover what he is doing. Freddy body is found later on and Ripley is being investigated for the murder by MacCarron. MacCarron uncovers a past from Dickie’s and Greenleaf decides to drop the case. That gave Ripley a great advantage in continuing what he has been doing and getting away with two murders. He leaves off with Peter on a cruise that later is also murder by Ripley. Although Tom Ripley knows that he has gotten away with his crimes but will never be brought to justice, he sadly resigned himself to a life without love or
Ripley’s is a homosexual who revealed himself to his parents which had a bad reaction to the news and did nothing but throw him out of their house. Ripley now struggles to get through his life being alone and without his family so he decides to search for a new true love. Ripley travels to Italy, where he fakes an …show more content…
He immediately realizes that he can assume to steal Dickie’s identity and forges Dickie’s signature, modifies his passport and begins to live life off Dickie’s trust funds. He makes sure he checks himself into two hotels to give the impression that Dickie’s is still alive. While Marge thinks that Ripley is impersonating Dickie’s. Tom is later caught by Freddy (a friend of the real Dickie’s) and is killed by Ripley to cover what he is doing. Freddy body is found later on and Ripley is being investigated for the murder by MacCarron. MacCarron uncovers a past from Dickie’s and Greenleaf decides to drop the case. That gave Ripley a great advantage in continuing what he has been doing and getting away with two murders. He leaves off with Peter on a cruise that later is also murder by Ripley. Although Tom Ripley knows that he has gotten away with his crimes but will never be brought to justice, he sadly resigned himself to a life without love or