> Some say it's unfaithful to the Highsmith novel
(Ripley's Game); some say
Dennis
> Hopper is bizarrely miscast as Ripley. Some say that
it's a metaphor for
(and I
> suppose criticism of) the relationship between the
U.S. and Germany.
But this aspect was true to the book. Her books are very
anti-American and got progressively more so through out her
career. Ripley himself is a symbol. He symbolizes the dark
side of the American psyche.
Jeff
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