Roger Ebert's review
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- Ebert's review is quoted as calling it an intelligent thriller, insidious in leading us to identify with Tom Ripley, a monster we want to get away with it; the score is read as 'Four to four'.
- Asked whether they root for Ripley, one answer is yes, against your will, because the film is structurally in his head and the first hour enraptures you with Dickie and Marge.
- Another view is that he starts as a sympathetic lower-middle-class underdog but becomes a specific brand of evil, perhaps mentally ill; one participant says they rooted for him the whole time, even after he kills Freddie.