Ripley

In the black-and-white Italy of Ripley, Tom Ripley’s most telling accessory is not a suit or a pair of sunglasses, but a black Montblanc Meisterstück 149 fountain pen. He handles it again and again in the private rituals that keep him moving between identities, writing letters and forging signatures with the calm of someone tidying a room. It is a small, severe object, and that suits Tom. The pen’s polished black body belongs to the same disciplined world he tries to inhabit, even as he uses it to bend that world to his will.