Avoid the TERRIBLE HORRIBLE Anthony Mingella movie with Matt Damon as Ripley, in which he does horrible things because he's fucked up by being a closeted gay man, and tragically realises that he's gay at the same time as he realises that he will have to murder his One True Soulmate (a character who barely exists in the novel) and thereby permanently fuck his life up to avoid getting caught. Not only does book!Ripley not fuck up his life, he's probably not gay, but actually a pretty convincingly asexual character before the concept was really made concrete. And would be cynically amused at the mere idea of a One True Soulmate.
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Date: 2022-12-06 06:07 pm (UTC)Avoid the TERRIBLE HORRIBLE Anthony Mingella movie with Matt Damon as Ripley, in which he does horrible things because he's fucked up by being a closeted gay man, and tragically realises that he's gay at the same time as he realises that he will have to murder his One True Soulmate (a character who barely exists in the novel) and thereby permanently fuck his life up to avoid getting caught. Not only does book!Ripley not fuck up his life, he's probably not gay, but actually a pretty convincingly asexual character before the concept was really made concrete. And would be cynically amused at the mere idea of a One True Soulmate.