Question: After Marge found Dickie's rings at Tom's place and confronted him, why did he hold a razor in his pocket and cut his hand?
raywest
11th Nov 2007
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Answer: Tom knew Marge would go to the police after discovering he had Dickie's rings. He intended to murder her with the razor that he slipped into his robe pocket. He was clutching it nervously and accidentally cut his palm on the blade. Tom was just about to kill Marge but she made a hasty exit when Peter suddenly arrived.
Answer: I believe he was going to hurt her, but when he was talking to her, he was getting too upset and frustrated, and where he would have made his hands into fists, he then cut himself. Then again, he wasn't totally sane anyway, so there could just be no explanation that we would know of.
I wondered the same thing about the razor, but he couldn't get away with killing her either.