Andrew Scott's performance becomes more and more impressive as the story progresses ; he often blows Johnny Flynn off the screen whereas ,in Minghella's movie ,it was the other way about ,Dickie-Law outstripping Ripley -Damon .
The most violent episode of the story ; although as far as the murder is concerned, the 1959 Clément 's "plein soleil " has technically the upper hand ,Scott makes us feel the hatred, the rancor against a sellfish boy who dismisses him like his father did before in a humiliating letter :it makes him feel like a servant , even though Dickie tells him it was a true friendship ; the pivotal sequence on the beach with the boys practising gymnastics tells it all (Highsmith depicts it but she makes no comment on their sexual orientation ) : "they are inverts" Dickie says,in a contemptous voice,and one has the strange feeling he fears he may be one of these friends of Dorothy .The "final solution" makes sense .The dolce vita's up.
The most violent episode of the story ; although as far as the murder is concerned, the 1959 Clément 's "plein soleil " has technically the upper hand ,Scott makes us feel the hatred, the rancor against a sellfish boy who dismisses him like his father did before in a humiliating letter :it makes him feel like a servant , even though Dickie tells him it was a true friendship ; the pivotal sequence on the beach with the boys practising gymnastics tells it all (Highsmith depicts it but she makes no comment on their sexual orientation ) : "they are inverts" Dickie says,in a contemptous voice,and one has the strange feeling he fears he may be one of these friends of Dorothy .The "final solution" makes sense .The dolce vita's up.