Hello! Welcome to the talented Mr Ripley episode of Sleep Money Goes to the Movies.

I'm Felix Aminib Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck. Also of Axios. Hello, hello.

And we are joined this week by Jared Holt. Jared, introduce yourself and tell us about

how you managed to persuade us to watch two movies this week, because we're actually watching

not just one, but two. Hello, Emily. Hello, Felix. I am the former editor of Sleep, now back to

discuss these movies. I don't know if I persuaded you so much as my first movie choice was V-Tode,

and then we sort of managed to sneak it back in. I say that with no animosity whatsoever,

but I think they were sort of a good pairing. That said, since talented Mr Ripley was not my choice,

although I enjoyed it very much, does one of you want to introduce it?

Talented Mr Ripley, just like office space, came out in 1999, this anus-mirabilist of movies,

all the best movies came out in 1999, even Toy Story 2. And it was one of those great sort of

star-power Miramax vehicles with all the hot actors in it, Jude Law and Kate Bittle and

Cher and Gwyneth Paltrow. And it was lots of expensive locations and Anthony Mengele, the director

and Patricia Heismith novel. And I think it was received reasonably well in it, you know, got the

glamour. But the reason why I think, and I can't exactly remember how we managed to

rely on this one, but I think the reason why we wanted to put this in the mix is that it has a

very interesting take on class and money and the relations between the money and the not-moneyed.

And it has a relatively, I would say, normal take on that, which is that the people with

don't money want money, they envy the people who do have money. And if you're a complete

psychopath, you will do anything to sort of get the money. Meanwhile, the moneyed people are

kind of like blive and unwirried by anything and live in this kind of little bubble of privilege.

I haven't read the book, but is that kind of, would you agree that's like the general sort of

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