If I didnt know any better I would think that the ptb want you simple masses to like psychopaths because there are so many psychopath characters in movies and tv - especially in modern times it seems. You get junk like Dexter and the Hannibal tv show pushed down your throats and to me it really does seem that beyond the desire to be all edgy there is a conscious effort to popularize 'psychopaths'.
Now I understand that many of you edgy types are great fans of the character Hannibal Lector but when the Hannibal tv show was cancelled due to the fact that nobody watched it the corporate media seemed to be devastated about it. They wrote up all these scripts defending the show - saying how great it was - and how it was such a tragedy that it was being cancelled - and they tried hard to promote the idea that perhaps this wasnt the end and the show could continue somehow ( may be coming to Netlix says report from 2020.. ) - despite the fact that nobody was watching it and nobody wanted that. It annoyed me so much that I actually wrote a thread on some forum that was titled 'Hannibal cancelled because nobody liked it'. I sure as hell didnt watch it because even though I didnt mind the Silence of the Lambs movie when I saw it as a teenager my opinion of Hannibal Lector was - meh. My favourite character in Silence of the Lambs was actually the dude that throws his semen on Jodie Fosters face. Plus all this Hannibal Lector fandom since then has always annoyed me because it really doesnt seem organic. I mean - you edgy types will like anything you are told to like right?
It also bothers me that we have so many 'psychopaths' in media when despite the fact that we have so many idiots of the psychology industry telling us what a psychopath is ( even though there seems to be no real consensus on what a psychopath is ) there is no such thing as a psychopath in the DSM. Only 'ASPD'. Technically there is no such thing as a psychopath. And you know what really bothers me - its all this nonsense these idiots come up with like childhood trauma being linked to individual that display the characteristics of the 'psychopath' stereotype because in my opinion this kind of junk is an insult to those individuals - and this kind of nonsense is almost always perpetuated through media representations of 'psychopaths'.
We also have the problem of media presenting characters as 'psycho' that the public takes as 'psychopaths' that are not what a true psychopath would be - for example - the Norman Bates character isnt a psychopath - he is a lunatic. The American Psycho character isnt a psychopath - he has an inferiority complex ( superiority complex stem from inferiority complex. Ask Adler.. ). Psychopaths do not have inferiority complexes - they genuinely believe themselves to be superior and they arent out to try to prove it to anyone. I kind of like the American Psycho character but he is not a psychopath.
Anyway - I really enjoyed the first season of the tv show Fargo. I never watched the movie when it came out but I was at home one day and there was a Fargo tv show marathon on and I started watching it and ended up watching it all day because I enjoyed it so much. I thought that the Billy Bob Thornton character was fantastic. And so was the Martin Freeman character ( Lester ). I thought that it was really interesting to watch Lester develop from a 'low functioning psychopath' into a 'high functioning psychopath'. Or was it a case of a 'normal' individual developing into a 'psychopath'? Can that even happen? Dont ask the psychology industry - they wouldnt have a %$%$ing clue. Anyway - the Fargo tv series is really good 'psychopath' media. Season one anyway. I only watched the first season Im pretty sure - to conclusion of Lester story. It goes on apparently. So after watching the Fargo tv series I thought that I needed to watch the Fargo movie because I assumed that there must have been a character in it that the Billy Bob character from the tv show was based on - I watched the movie and I was like - WTF?
But my favourite and in my opinion most accurate depiction of a 'psychopath' in media is from a movie called The Lincoln Lawyer that stars Mathew McConaughey and Ryan Phillipe. The psychopath character is played by Ryan Phillipe in the movie and he does such a great job. I really liked Ryan Phillipe in the movie Cruel Intentions - I love that scene where he has just seduced Selma Blair and he just pushes her away like she is nothing after he is done with her. But yeah in this Lincoln Lawyer movie Ryan Phillipe is even better and the script does a wonderful job of depicting a psychopath. For example there is a scene where Ryan Phillipe is %$%$ing with Mathew McConaughey in a way where McConaughey knows Phillipe is %$%$ing with him but at the same time there is plausible deniability. Psychopaths love that kind of thing -
All I said was she's pretty. Ha.
So how about you guys? Who are your favourite psychopaths from tv and movies? I am really interested.
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