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    Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
    Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
    Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
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    Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

    By Samuel Vaknin and Lidija Rangelovska

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema - Samuel Vaknin

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      Title: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

      Author: Sam Vaknin

      Posting Date: August 13, 2012 [EBook #8422] Release Date: July, 2005 First Posted: July 9, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORAL DELIBERATIONS IN MODERN CINEMA ***

      Copyright (C) 2002 by Lidija Rangelovska.

      Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

      1sst EDITION

      Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

      Editing and Design:

      Lidija Rangelovska

      Lidija Rangelovska

      A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003

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      Philosophical Musings and Essays

      http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html

      Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited

      http://samvak.tripod.com/

      Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA

      REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

      C O N T E N T S

      I. The Talented Mr. Ripley

      II. The Truman Show

      III. The Matrix

      IV. Shattered

      V. Titanic

      VI. Being John Malkovich

      VII. Dreamcatcher - The Myth of Destructibility

      VIII. The Author

      IX. About After the Rain

      The Talented Mr. Ripley

      By: Sam Vaknin

      The Talented Mr. Ripley is an Hitchcockian and blood-curdling study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisitely decadent scapes of Italy, is a titanic encounter between Ripley, the aforementioned psychopath protagonist and young Greenleaf, a consummate narcissist.

      Ripley is a cartoonishly poor young adult whose overriding desire is to belong to a higher - or at least, richer - social class. While he waits upon the subjects of his not so hidden desires, he receives an offer he cannot refuse: to travel to Italy to retrieve the spoiled and hedonistic son of a shipbuilding magnate, Greenleaf Senior. He embarks upon a study of Junior's biography, personality, likes and hobbies. In a chillingly detailed process, he actually assumes Greenleaf's identity. Disembarking from a luxurious Cunard liner in his destination, Italy, he confesses to a gullible textile-heiress that he is the young Greenleaf, travelling incognito.

      Thus, we are subtly introduced to the two over-riding themes of the antisocial personality disorder (still labelled by many professional authorities psychopathy and sociopathy): an overwhelming dysphoria and an even more overweening drive to assuage this angst by belonging. The psychopath is an unhappy person. He is besieged by recurrent depression bouts, hypochondria and an overpowering sense of alienation and drift. He is bored with his own life and is permeated by a seething and explosive envy of the lucky, the mighty, the clever, the have it alls, the know it alls, the handsome, the happy - in short: his opposites. He feels discriminated against and dealt a poor hand in the great poker game called life. He is driven obsessively to right these perceived wrongs and feels entirely justified in adopting whatever means he deems necessary in pursuing this goal.

      Ripley's reality test is maintained throughout the film. In other words - while he gradually merges with the object of his admiring emulation, the young Greenleaf - Ripley can always tell the difference. After he kills Greenleaf in self-defense, he assumes his name, wears his clothes, cashes his checks and makes phone calls from his rooms. But he also murders - or tries to murder - those who suspect the truth. These acts of lethal self-preservation prove conclusively that he knows who he is and that he fully realizes that his acts are parlously illegal.

      Young Greenleaf is young, captivatingly energetic, infinitely charming, breathtakingly handsome and deceivingly emotional. He lacks real talents - he know how to play only six jazz tunes, can't make up his musical mind between his faithful sax and a newly alluring drum kit and, an aspiring writer, can't even spell. These shortcomings and discrepancies are tucked under a glittering facade of non-chalance, refreshing spontaneity, an experimental spirit, unrepressed sexuality and unrestrained adventurism. But Greenleaf Jr. is a garden variety narcissist. He cheats on his lovely and loving girlfriend, Marge. He refuses to lend money - of which he seems to have an unlimited supply, courtesy his ever more disenchanted father - to a girl he impregnated. She commits suicide and he blames the primitiveness of the emergency services, sulks and kicks his precious record player. In the midst of this infantile temper tantrum the rudiments of a conscience are visible. He evidently feels guilty. At least for a while.

      Greenleaf Jr. falls in and out of love and friendship in a predictable pendulous rhythm. He idealizes his beaus and then

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