Peter waited for Ripley to hand him his "key", and one day Ripley woke up from a nightmare to see Maggie and Peter. Ripley gave him the keys to his house, but it was only a formality.

Maggie accidentally finds Dickie's ring in the sewing kit, and she senses something trying to leave, just as Ripley realizes that he can only find a razor while he is in the bath.

"Very well, that's it. Anthony straightened up and shouted, "Put away the razor in Ripley's hand and give him a small packet of plasma." ”

Maybe Anthony knew that Theorod was "serious and responsible" when he broke the small wooden boat, so even though it was just a prop razor without a sharp edge, he didn't choose to let Theorod continue to hold the "murder weapon", but asked the prop team to prepare a small packet of plasma for him.

"Although I know that even if I listen to my current reminder, you may not be able to do it then, but, Ripley, when Maggie retreats to the side of the door for a walk, this position, you can pinch this blood bag again, and it will be in this position. Anthony stomped on the ground with his foot.

Theolod tossed the little blood bag and nodded. Anthony then continued to Gwyneth: "We'll take your shot later, the camera cuts in from Ripley's right shoulder, and when you step back, you must remember to retreat to your right back, not to the left, and the target is your right hand, Ripley's left hand door." If you can pass a dozen or so times, you can rest on the side of Ripley's shots, and work hard for this goal. ”

Anthony shoots this part separately, Maggie's lens has to appear because of Ripley's figure, so Theolod has to appear, but Ripley's close-up doesn't have to be like this, he only needs to set up a camera to slowly retreat with Ripley, in principle, there is no need for Gwyneth to play on the side, and he also believes that Theorod can take the lens as Maggie. However, in order to keep his actor focused, he can only "threaten" in this way.

After all—like Gwyneth's joke—he was also worried that Theorod would scare her speechless.

The camera is set behind Theolod's right, and Ripley calls out to stop Maggie, who is about to leave.

"Maggie, will you listen to me? Listen to me......" Although the camera did not take care of the look on Theolod's face, Gwyneth, who was standing opposite him, could clearly see the expression on the other party's face. It's not that he's vicious, no, it's not related to this at all, on the contrary, his expression is abnormal...... Gentle, as if looking at his girlfriend who was arguing with him, the distressed and helpless soft look made Gwyneth goosebumps at that moment.

She misses the warm man who is usually empathetic and occasionally has a little bad taste, really.

"You see, you know Dickey, too, and you said he swore he would never take off the ring......? It's embarrassing, after all, that's what he did, isn't it?" Ripley frowned lightly in distress, and then, he smiled at Maggie soothingly, his eyes also changed slightly at this moment, "His promise is not the same as your promise to mine, he said before that he would take me skiing, but what about the end result?"

The strangeness gradually swallowed up the false comfort in Ripley's eyes, like a blank paper that was instantly stained with ink.

"You know, he's like that, one second he likes Monguibello, the next he wants to move north. One second he liked the saxophone, and the next he said he wanted to learn jazz drums. One second he took you out to sea to tell you that he loved you the most, and the next second he would be to other people. One second he's thinking, 'Hey, we're going to be together forever,' and the next he's telling you it's time to get out......"

Ripley didn't say a word, his speech would speed up a little, and with the volume gradually losing control, in that moment, Gwyneth could see clearly, and when the last sentence roared out of his trembling body, his gentle and slightly green smile, his eyes, his gaze, with a kind of sad hatred, made his expression look extraordinarily distorted.

"The point, the point," Ripley narrowed his eyes slightly, his right hand clutched tightly in his yukata pocket, his left hand trembling a little, unconsciously swinging, more like he was using this brief moment to steady his feelings than to comfort Maggie, and then he was satisfied with his composure and reappeared with that reassuring smile, "Dicki, he can't even fulfill his promise for five minutes." ”

The gaffer's use of light and shadow is excellent, or rather Theolod instinctively understands how to work with light and shadow. At this time, what made Gwyneth's body tingle was Theorrod's evil green eyes.

Ripley was approaching her, and the light and shadow changed in an instant.

"Actually, Maggie, you don't know, I loved you, really, I loved you. Just look at the doubt on your face and I understand that you definitely don't believe it, but that's okay. I suggest that you write this sentence on a slip of paper and put it in your purse, and maybe on some sad day in the future, you can take it out and read it......"

"......," Gwyneth swore she had heard correctly—she had a bit of Dickie's flavor in Theorod's, no, Ripley's voice! Not a copy of Dickie, of course, that he usually disguised himself as Dickey, but an ambiguous and vague flavor between Ripley and Dickey, that strange, eerie, mirror-like affection.

Standing in the light, his eyes were so blue, the flirtatious and dazzling blue reminded her of Dickie, but the banter in those eyes and the mockery of who she didn't know who was sarcastic pulled her out of Dickey's delusion.

Gwyneth realized in hindsight that from the start of filming to the present, the person in front of her has not blinked once.

That nervous sense of madness made her tremble subconsciously. Ripley had walked in front of her, but her feet were like lead, and she couldn't walk.

“…… CUT, my Maggie, give me some survival instincts, are you going to wait for Ripley to kill you?" Anthony helplessly held his forehead and stopped filming in time.

“…… I'm sorry. Gwyneth said that whenever she thought she was ready, Theolod would surprise her again, which really made her feel helpless or happy.

On the second shoot she was 120,000 wary, she was not influenced by Theorod - which was successful - but the unnaturalness of her excessive tension made Anthony unhappy.

After five or six cuts, Anthony decided to give the group a break, and five minutes later, the shooting resumed. But this time it wasn't Gwyneth who went wrong.

This time it was quite smooth, and she had already reached the end of the scene, and even if Gwyneth had a good attitude, she was unconsciously a little nervous. And at this time, Theorod, who had spoken his lines very well, suddenly had a little situation-

"Maggie, do you know......" Ripley, who had just been as nervous as a frightened person, suddenly lifted his forehead with his left hand and seemed to frown in great pain, as if he was enduring something. After Theorod's regular free play, everyone in the room was unsure if he had another idea or if he really had a sudden headache.

"You know what......" His voice was tinged with abnormal pain, and for a moment Gwyneth didn't know how to react until she ......

"I really couldn't pinch this bag of plasma this time. ”

Ripley suddenly raised his right hand that had been in his pocket, and he pinched the small packet of blood-red liquid, and the liquid was all squeezed out in one direction, and he pinched it again, and the liquid ran in the other direction, but no matter how hard he tried, the bag of this thing was always unusually strong.

“…… Poofhahahaha. Gwyneth couldn't bear it, and laughed on Theorod's shoulder, and the others around laughed too, even Anthony, who had to reluctantly let the props team change to a more fragile package.

Theolod smiled and patted Gwyneth on the back, and everyone was amused by his sudden appearance, and no one noticed that there was a faint inconspicuous fold in the middle of his eyebrows.

However, Theorod's innocuous joke made Gwyneth much more relaxed, and the subsequent shooting was also very smooth. Ripley's attempt is disrupted by Peter, who suddenly returns, and Maggie escapes, while Peter stays behind to comfort Ripley, who pretends to have a fight with Maggie.

While bandaging Ripley's palm wound that had been cut by a "razor", he inadvertently saw a slight tattoo on the cuff of Ripley's right arm. Of course, this look in his eyes was only caused by Jack's "inadvertent", in fact, he was still comforting Ripley as in the script.

Ripley fell silent suddenly, and after a few seconds he said, "I noticed you're curious about it. He flicked his cuffs.

Peter realized that he was talking about his own tattoos: "Because you don't look like someone who would tattoo your arm, but if you don't want to say it, it's okay, everyone has a little secret." ”

Ripley just smiled and didn't speak, he suddenly lifted the collar of his yukata and took off his right sleeve, exposing his right arm and naked right upper body to Peter's eyes.

"This ...... It's beautiful......," Peter said, perhaps because Jack was a little taken aback, and the stammering remark was a little more endearingly shy and nervous to Peter's character.

Ripley suddenly took Peter's hand and placed his warm palm on his slender right arm.

Under the beautiful vine pattern, Peter faintly felt a long scar, and he couldn't help but gasp: "This is ......"

"I got a tattoo to cover it up, and as for it......" Ripley lowered his eyes, looking at his scars, his eyes filled with hesitation and recollection, and his body cringed for a moment, because of his nervousness and low self-esteem, and even fear. Yet, in spite of this, he mustered up the courage to look at Peter.

That glance, with a fragile desire and hope, and a vague, unspeakable trust.

"It's because ...... The person I loved, a long time ago, there was a group of villains who didn't like how I felt about that person. ”

This story is very short compared to what he told Dicki and Maggie. When Ripley had finished speaking, he lowered his eyes, said no more to him, and did not dare to look at Peter.

A few seconds of waiting seemed like centuries to Ripley. He sensed Peter's movement, and the other man silently but gently dressed him in a yukata, then put his hands on his thin shoulders and lowered his head, looking for Ripley's hiding gaze.

"Then they are indeed a group of heinous fellows, and your former lover is very unqualified. Who could bear to make such a sinful scar on such a beautiful arm?"

Peter's gentle voice was like the only driftwood in the sea.

His hands on his shoulders were so warm that they were like hugs.

Peter finally gets another "key" to Ripley, and Ripley, after telling two stories, is finally willing to veil someone in a veiled way, making him feel inferior.

Ripley didn't say anything, he raised his hand slightly, maybe he wanted a warm hug, but in the end, he gave up, he put his hands on Peter's arms, and with a slight force, Peter let him down.

If......

It's a pity that there is never an if, one wrong step, it will always be an abyss.

Dickie's father sends a private detective to investigate Dickey's death, and they eventually come to a conclusion. Dipley's ring is in Ripley's hands because Ripley takes responsibility for Dickey after Montiberro unexpectedly impregnates a woman and the woman commits suicide. Freddy, on the other hand, was indeed killed by Dickey - after all, three people had witnessed Dickey getting into Freddy's car, and Dickey had Freddy's license plate in his basement, and Dickey had beaten a man half to death when he was in Princeton before - Ripley hid a Qiē for Dickey and was a loyal friend, but Dickey couldn't stand the benign torment, so he committed suicide. As for Maggie, Greenleaf Sr. only dismissed her accusations against Ripley as grief-stricken.

Repley Tong guò escaped a qiē with his previous preparations, but he could not escape his fate. On a cruise with Peter to Greece, Ripley meets Melti and a group of her aunts and uncles.

Melti said she met Peter on the boat, and she suspected that "Dickey" was traveling with Peter.

Peter, on the other hand, told Ripley when he came to his room in silence, and he happened to see Ripley kissing a lady who seemed to be Melty.

Ripley smiled, his eyes so desperate, heartbreaking.

In order to perpetuate the lie, he had to keep the two of them, including Melti's relatives, never to see each other on the rest of the voyage, but this was not possible, and they were stuck at sea, trapped in a ship.

He can only make one of them disappear, and this side cannot be Melti, who has many relatives with her.

Peter...... We're going to stay in the room for the next few days, okay......" Rip said in a joking tone, but the pleading in his tone was as obvious as his already moist eyes.

But Peter didn't notice it, he took the other person's words as a joke and rejected them as a joke.

At that moment, Ripley's hands, leaning against the door and slowly untying his scarf, trembled so much that he could hardly obey the call.

"I'm trapped in the basement forever, right? I'm trapped in the basement forever, with no keys, no doors, no windows. Ripley looked down, perhaps laughing, "Peter, have you ever felt this way?"

"When you stand next to a tall building, you think, just like that...... Fall...... When you gaze at the sea, you will have the urge to jump down and sink like that...... Sink...... You can't find a reason to retract your feet that are standing on the edge, you can't find a reason to bring yourself to the surface......"

"No, I have many reasons, the most important one is still standing at the door of my room, he is blowing on the deck, and when he sees a beautiful woman, his little head begins to think cranky, and if I don't withdraw my feet and come to the surface, I'm afraid I won't hear him again." ”

Ripley's nose was soured by Peter's soft, smiling voice, and he shook his head as he insisted on making himself laugh.

"But I can't find it, I can't find it, just like I can't find the exit from the basement. I'm falling forever, I don't know when I'm going to be crushed, I'm sinking, maybe I'm losing consciousness before I get to the bottom of the sea, I'm in eternal darkness, I think I can break the wall, get up, soak up the sun. I thought that by pretending to be a qiē of my love, I would be able to feel warmth and become an important somebody, but at the end of the day, I was still an inconsequential nobody......"

"No, you're not an inconsequential dust, you're somebody to the people who care about you, and you don't have to be someone else, because you're the only Tom Ripley. ”

This sentence had already broken Ripley, and he could only lie on Peter's back lying on the bed to hide his tears of despair. The narrow scarf was wrapped around his hand, as if the tighter he wound it, the more he could control his trembling hands.

“…… I'm not worthy, Pete, I'm not worthy......" Ripley's throat was so hot that he couldn't even speak.

Peter, who was counting Ripley's merits to him, didn't hear this helpless monologue that even Ripley himself couldn't hear......

The final shot is of Ripley sitting alone in his room.

Peter's wide black tweed coat was draped over Ripley's body like an unbearable mountain, weighing heavily on Ripley's shoulders and weighing him down. But he still clutched his cuffs tightly, letting them appear as if they were hugging him, as if he could feel the warmth of Peter's arms.

He may be smiling, and that smile is more gentle than ever, gentle...... It's like Peter's warm smile that only blooms at Ripley every time.

It's just that his empty and pathetic eyes are so strong that they are almost suffocating.

Many female employees who were watching had already burst into tears uncontrollably, and even some men couldn't help but have red eyes.

Anthony looked at the last shot, and with just a glance, a certain thought could not help but appear in his mind.

He doesn't know if this film will still make him win Best Director, or Best Picture, but he is extremely sure that because of this film, he will produce a second Oscar nominee, and even, Oscar, a young actor.