Born to be a murderer

Chadd 2022-03-17 09:01:01

Serious spoiler warning ⚠️

The plot is shocking. It is a movie that tells how a born murderer with a flawed mind in a suit and leather shoes satisfies his evil desire to torture and kill, but at the same time, deep in his heart, he is also struggling with moral constraints.

The male protagonist’s exaggeration about morality, racial equality, and world peace in the bar really impressed me with the unstoppable desire of murder at the bottom. It’s not that the male protagonist is extremely hypocritical, but that he really believes this. One set, these beliefs are indeed traces of his ideals, but after all, it is just that he is so narcissistic that he is unwilling and unable to accept his broken, divided, and perverted mentality as a kind of psychological defense, that trace of morality at this time It's just that he leaves the beast, the last line of the evil bloodthirsty creature.

Catchy

The same scene happened when the male protagonist brought Hooker to the apartment for the second time. The male protagonist’s expression was deeper and self-intoxicated. The protagonist’s profound understanding of music is actually his unconscious search for missing, broken self. That part of yourself that is truly empathetic. (Multi-picture warning, in order to reflect this part, I cut the whole picture)

Hooker is intoxicated, how could she think of her fate

Missing morality

Tribute to "The Shining"

The ending is also ridiculous. When his slight sense of morality and external oppression made him "have" to confess everything to the so-called lawyer, he found that everything did not develop as he expected, and it was not "a fluke." When he was tried, he had already surpassed morality and the law many times. "If you survive a catastrophe, you will have a blessing." Yes, he has upgraded. He will become a more sophisticated, more detailed, and more savage murderer, walking in private clubs in the upper class.

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American Psycho quotes

  • [Just after breaking up]

    Evelyn Williams: Where are you going?

    Patrick Bateman: I am just leaving.

    Evelyn Williams: But where?

    Patrick Bateman: I have to return some videotapes.

  • Patrick Bateman: He was into that whole Yale thing.

    Donald Kimball: Yale thing?

    Patrick Bateman: Yeah, Yale thing.

    Donald Kimball: What whole Yale thing?

    Patrick Bateman: Well, for one thing, I think he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of cocaine. That whole Yale thing.