#movie psychopaths

[harrycosmo]

Officer Pete Davis is just dreamy, but then psychopaths often are.

Ray Liotta's Officer Pete in Unlawful Entry (1992) is very well-written. He wants to take Karen (Madeleine Stowe) away from Michael (Kurt Russell) and he is in fact impotent without that sense of victory over someone he's insecure about. He infantilises and emasculates Michael having first become a trusted friend which makes it that much more difficult for Michael to resist being identified in that humiliating way. Michael manages to listen to his instinct that something is wrong and Pete begins to torment Michael into anti-social behaviour while being charming and unobjectionable. He can always claim his intentions were friendly when he crosses boundaries and often he can even defend his actions with a reminder that Michael had actually said that he wanted this or that thing to happen - in each case, Michael had quite obviously just been speaking casually.

Michael is onto him first and Karen thinks he’s overreacting - people are usually quicker at spotting dodgy behaviour in members of their own sex, perhaps because of background intrasexual competition that underlies nearly all social interactions - but he is eventually able to get her to see it. Any woman who Pete fails to seduce is devalued as a whore and discarded. Karen ends up having to play along with his delusion in order to avoid being killed.

Unlawful Entry came out the same year as The Hand that Rocks the Cradle which features a female psychopath employing similar tactics and who is just as deadly.

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

[littlefankingdom]

I keep seeing people complain that William Afton doesn't have a motive in the FNAF movie but, as someone who watch true crime and is interested in the psychology of criminals, serial killers don't often have one in the sense y'all want. Yes, in stories, you are used to have a detailed motive, but motives for serial killings are often simply "feeling powerful", especially when the victims are children. Killers target children because it's easier and they can have a better control of the situation. Does it comes from deep issues and trauma? Yes, but the murderers don't always care or know. And it's a psychologist that will have to find that, serial killers often just spill that "it felt good".

It's simply about having power over others.

[abookwasallittooktomakemeacrook]

symbrock must be made canon in venom 3 because i overhyped the first two movies to my straight friend and she surprisingly liked them and asked me to keep her updated and now she needs to see them kiss on screen so she can reduce her internalized homophobia and i can come out to her

[escapismthroughfilm]

⋆˚We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) dir. Lynne Ramsey⋆˚

[texaschainsawmascara]

Michael Pitt, Gus Van Sant

[brendaareiss]

One of the reasons why I truly think Andre is a psychopath, is his attitude on zero day.

Cal was pissed. Yeah, he laughed a couple times, but it was only like, two? Back to the point, we see Cal killing. We see how Cal doesn't make fun of the people he kills, how he wants to go as fast as he can. How he isn't scared of killing himself. Of course he has a lack of empathy, but he wasn't afraid of putting a bullet right through his skull, in fact, zero day was a suicide mission for him. Something he had to do before doing what he really wanted. "I'm going to make my mark, and then, it'll to be my time to die"

Andre didn't want to kill himself. Andre was scared to fucking pull the trigger. The same andre that was scared to end his whole life, was the same dude who moments before, was shooting random kids at his highschool. He was enjoying it. He was making fun of them, messing with them, making fun of how they fell or how they reacted. He was enjoying killing all of them, enjoying how people were suffering because of HIS bullets. Cal having to take him out of his sadistic mind trance when he was teasing the kid who called the police. Calling himself a god, liking when people showed him how scared they were of him.

He enjoyed the idea of killing random kids at his highschool, but when he realised he had to kill himself, suddenly, nothing was that funny anymore. He didn't want to, he was scared.

My point is, Cal didn't care about killing students and he wanted to end it all.

Andre was enjoying killing students a little bit too much, but when it came to him, he suddenly didn't want to anymore. He wanted to cause pain. Not receive pain.

(One of my other reasons is the "military procedure" they had to finally commit zero day. Andre being super calculating and pissy when something didn't come out his way. But that rant is for another day)

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[robby-bobby-tommy]

KO: Ugh... Since BreakDown joined the AllSpark it's been undearable here. I even stopped going to a drive-in theatres.

Shockwave: Will a good movie decrease your whinning and increase your productivity?

KO: Mayby...

[*Watching human centipede*]

Shockwave: Inspiring...

[philiponmycracker]

Psycho cutie boyfriend Billy knows how to drive Marty nuts

Seven Psychopaths (2012) dir. Martin Mcdonagh

[joanyio]

“diary of the merciless evil devil guest from hell”

is what im calling the big 5 from now on

[sahind]

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) Directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

[oakendesk]

movie poster - The Psychopath - Feb 1966

Enzo Nistri

[nicofromparamore]

Suicide room will be forever in my heart 🖤

[planetdilf]

He is so fine

[agir1ukn0w]

oh man I can't wait to see how they massacre my boy geta