BODY DOUBLE is wonderful. It's one of my favourites all genres/times combined. I rank it in my personal De Palma top 3 with DRESSED TO KILL and BLOW OUT. De Palma is (was) magic (especially at that time)!

Whenever I'm waiting for my morning espresso drink, I'll look over at another customer and say "Dickie Greenleaf? It's Tom!!!"

The constant power struggle makes this film a masterpiece in subtilty.

Gosh i can relate to this man in every way . I am tnis guy .

Its not a comedy.its about how hard it is for some people to feel intimacy.once experienced it can change you but if its not in your nature.its tough but it can happen . circumstance can encourage it ,not poisoning as tnis is a metaphor . But other ways.

I would hate the dinner also .

Alma is a gift

At LAST - An insightful review worthy of this SUPERB movie - Thanks! 👍

One could also consider the conversation between Freddy Miles (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Tom up in "Dickie's appartment" in Rome. It is an incredibly powerful scene including two absolute acting titans, resulting in almost unbearable tension. From the first moment that Freddy appears, he has been Tom's walking torture. The way he snatches Dickie from him during their trip to Rome, the fact that Tom joins late to breakfast only to discover that Freddy has been mocking him in front of the others for wearing a cord jacket in Italy, all this reaches his climax when Freddy finds Tom in a Roman appartment where he expected to find Dickie. Freddy can sniff that something is foul here although he doesn't have the full picture yet. All this creates a great subtext to this duel between two guys that obviously can not stand each other.

I’ll just say it: Reynolds is laying in bed , sick with poisoning. He envisions his dead mother on the wall at the foot of the bed. Mothers image is wearing the wedding gown Reynolds designed for her…when he was a boy. It is see-through. You can see her nipples. The door opens and Alma walks in to nurse him. Mama disappears and does not return. Reynolds has a new woman to mother his “bad” self. Ok? It’s a sick movie about a sick relationship that began with his sick mother. Hide it in plain site.

Everyone killed it in this movie. Matt Damon should have been also nominated not just Jude Law. Gwyneth Paltrow was also so exceptional!!

Interesting to read these comments because a lot of critics thought Damon gave a mediocre performance. I think it is more that they didn't understand the slightly different character that he was portraying in this version as compared with the novel or the original film.

My favorite thing to say to my wife is “are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening?…and possibly my entire life?!” 😂

Please, PLEASE forgive me, but you provide the essential and quintessential European perspective. Exactly what a film of this source (America) deserves.

Useful commentary on a great film.

Yeah I can attest to the multiple watches changes the tone. I watched it the first time and it was incredibly tragic. Then watched a second time and was laughing the whole time. lol

My favourite movie + film score of all time

This is a good one. Both the analysis and the performance. The asparagus scene.

Non credo ,diversamente da altri pareri che non ci sia nulla di comico in questa scena, è l’espressione della complessità dei rapporti umani, gli argomenti, asparago o altro, sono puri pretesti perché i due possano manifestare i reciproci disagi, le proprie più o meno ossessive convinzioni, i propri bisogni di controllo l’uno sull’altro, cosa c’è da ridere? È una scena cupamente dura, molto naturale, in parte improvvisata dai due interpreti, dei geni!!!

What a great video you made. Thank you. “Right now I’m just admiring my own gallantry for eating it the way you prepared it”

Matt Damon in the 90's is his best work. From School Ties to Good Will Hunting and the underrated John Gresham's The Rainmaker and of course this movie. The ending of this movie is so different than the book. In fact Meredith is not even a character in the book. She was written in for the movie.

I’ve seen Phantom Thread thrice now, and the way you have introduced new ideas and thoughts of how I personally observed the scenes in this movie is superb. You are absolutely right in that there is a new way to observe the film each time. Simply wonderful job you have done here.

I watched this incredible film for the first time last night, brilliant in every way. Enjoyed your take on it, thank you. Will be watching Phantom Thread again soon.

"Cut to the present, and an increasingly sex-positive culture is learning to recognize the basic harmlessness of gay men using a space conceived for communal sexuality as intended, as well as the reactionary motivations for police to intrude." - Charles Bramesco Sounds like something a pervert would write. Care to defend it?

What I’d like to hear from someone is just one comment about Reynolds’s mother. Why is no one discussing this 500 lb gorilla in the room? Obviously “mother” is key to her children’s personalities and relationship and goes a long way toward explaining the sick relationship between the lovers.

Bramesco looks like someone Tim Ballard would arrest.

Love this film and love Matt's performance ❤ new sub! Oh & love your analysis!

Charles Dude is there seriously something wrong with calling the sound of freedom a qanon movie Are you that emotionally insecure and have no soul for the subject matter? Children dude really ?

I love this movie

What a great review

Bramesco is a soyboy

Please discuss the film "Calvary" with Brendan Gleeson. Very interesting analysis. I have seen Phantom Thread about 10 times!

omg its leonardo dicaprio

The two breakfast scenes: the first with Joanna "I can't begin my day with a confrontation, please" I love that line! I immediately started using it when needed lol and then Alma with the scapping of the toast and the butter knife clanking and the tea...Reynolds irritation "There's entirely too much movement..." and then after they'd gotten married and were sitting outside having breakfast and his facial reaction to her scrapping her teeth to eat the I'm thinking honey/sticky like substance out of her spoon...all of the above are so classic if you've ever known upclose this type of behavior that Reynolds displays, it is hilarious to watch! I am totally fascinated with this movie, the performances, sountrack, everything! I've watched it I don't know how many times and I keep finding more and more layers. Lesley Manville is superb. She says more with a look than a page of dialog could offer. I love the fondness that grows between the two women. Cyril's expression when Alma is modeling is so telling as are all of Cyril's expressions. Fabulous movie. I found the dynamics between Reynolds and Alma fascinating. This had me totally drawn in! Great analysis...I just found you and what a treat that the movie you were discussing was this wonderful brilliantly performed film. Thank you!

Thanks a lot for this video! Great analysis

this is so helpful and thoughtful! Thank you!

"Phantom Thread" is the film that should have won the Oscar instead of "Shape of Water". It's an exquisite film with glorious costumes and music . The House of Woodcock reminds me of the Queen's perennial designer Norman Hartnell and his House, which served mainly the aristocracy- certainly not the bourgeoisie. Strangely, nothing in this film made me laugh. The relationship between Woodcock and Alma cut too close to the bone. Yes, she made him very ill with the mushrooms but those very mushrooms gave him a much desired contact( even if it was a hallucination) of his first love- his mother. I'm impressed with this sensitive analysis. Thank you.

Dickie believes he is invincible. He's young, wealthy, entitled. He's slumming and goofing off. His future is assured, he thinks, a golden future with a woman who is a wealthy, blueblood, like himself regardless of what he does, or how many lives he crushes. Tom, on the other hand, is hungry. He knows the desperation of poverty and a lower status. He wants acceptance from Dickie as an equal, for his own sake.

I really enjoyed your analysis. I have also watched this film many times. It’s the psychological aspects of Tom and Damon’s great acting that make the film so interesting. There’s so much in it. Thanks for uploading 😊

❤this story was personal for me. I befriended a covert narcissist sociopath. Everything about Tom Ripley reminded me of him and all the damage he left behind.

Great analysis of these black and white serial killer movies.

Hopefully new episodes come out

Love this channel. I like the way you explain so beautifully LOVE FROM INDIA🙏🙏🙏

You did a very nice job here. Thank you, and continued success with your career in the industry. After listening to your full analysis, I am really impressed by it.

I'll support you on Patreon and tell everyone i know about you in exchange for a conversation with you.

Brilliant commentary. Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much❤great analysis

Thank you! I am so happy to find an appreciation of this performance, which I think is still Damon's best, and one of the best acting performances in the last couple of decades of film. It completely changed my opinion of him; previously he seemed like another studio-made "star" who had the advantage of being young and personable, but with The Talented Mr. Ripley I saw that he was a real actor, someone who could convey layers and nuances in a way that one seldom sees. The movie itself made a huge impression on me, as a perfect depiction (quite different from the book) of a longing to "belong," the joy of briefly being accepted, and then the pain and anger at being cast out, and after that the fear that a loveless solitary life is all that his future holds. His speech about the "key" to a person's innermost identity is a classic.

J'ai vu ce film. Mat Damon est un très bon acteur. L'hitoire de ce film est fabuleux et le role de Mat Damon esf incroyable. J'ai adoré la façon dont il joue une double personally. Il tue sont rival pour prendre ça place et il arrive a manipulater tout le monde. Superbe film.🇧🇪🙏👍👌🎥🎞🎬🌈🌍💖🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Just re-watched this movie about three weeks ago with a friend who didn't know what it was about. I haven't seen it in years. We're both gay men. It reminded me that this film is one of the best LGBTQ+ movies I've ever seen, but rarely acknowledged as such, and that Matt Damon is an incredible actor. Ripley's disarming, child-like attitude is not an act--that's his true self. But Ripley also has a far more sinister side that comes out when he's humiliated, abandoned or threatened. As for his amoral, manipulative and forceful social climbing, that's Ripley's third side--his sociopathy and narcissism, where he will stop at nothing to be recognized as one of the rich and pampered. Combine these three with a fourth--his homosexuality, highly taboo in the 1950s--and you get a very lethal combination. Truly a captivating tale of one of the most complex antihero protagonists in the history of cinema.