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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (8 children)

For me, the most unsettling part was how one of the most important scenes in the movie happens off camera.

I was like "Wait... Did I MISS that?" Nope. It just happens off camera.

No spoilers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I thought the Bateman we saw was his fugue dissociated interpretation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I heard Todd from breaking bad was the best depiction of a psychopath in media. He's not just outright evil like Anton he just doesn't really have feelings of guilt or remorse like normal people.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I've run into more Patrick Batemans than Anton Chigurhs in my career.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wouldn't this be better with 1.) said group actually being psychologists, and 2.) a link to verify this happened at all?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Aren't psychiatrists the ones with more in depth knowledge and the ones that can legally prescribe medications?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

They tend to be more medicine focused and do less diagnostic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, psychologists are the ones who haven't gone through med school.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why would psychologists be better?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not sure if it's the same in the US, but in France a psychiatrist's area of expertise is drugs and their effect on our brain/body (and with each other), which is why they have to do a few years of med school. They also have some psychology knowledge obviously but it's not their main focus, whereas a psychologist does not need any medical training (iirc) and specializes in psychology, and thus cannot prescribe drugs aside from over-the-counter stuff, although a lot of them also have some psychiatry training to better interact with psychiatrists when needed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

In the US a psychiatrist would be needed for a formal diagnosis. Psychologists can evaluate and treat with therapy but you need a psychiatrist for the formal diagnosis and medication.

Psychologists could watch the movies and give an opinion as well as a psychiatrist but it wouldn’t be necessary. An actual person with psychopathic traits would likely end up in the care of a psychiatrist.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm reminded of an old meme, it was a message taped to a dorm's clothes dryer: "Whoever took my wet clothes out of the dryer and put yours in, you're an asshole. Unfortunately for you, so am I. You can find your clothes outside frozen in the snowbank. Problem with that? Room 214."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's too bad that Room 214 had that run of inexplicable bad luck after that. It was probably just the haunting, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bullies don't like picking on people that stand up for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You get that from a poster? That's dangerously irresponsible advice for someone who's being bullied. 😶

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

No, that's a reasonable response.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe because psychopathy is not a diagnosis. Psychopath is a popular or sometimes criminalism term, it's definition is vague and its use is not very strict. In mental health there's antisocial personality disorder and psychopathic traits in personality testing. But there's no single definition of what being a "psychopath" is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

It's probably about how beliavable in their experience the behaviour of the characters are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Music in a movie instructs you on how you are supposed to feel about what's going on. Even if the music is telling you to feel uncomfortable, it's comforting to have that instruction. No music, no comfort.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember MASH being devoid of music as well.

Is there a list of movies that have no or very little music?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

“Creep” has no music and it made it so much better for me. I really enjoyed that film.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That laughter track, however…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think they are referring to the movie, which (I believe) did not have a laugh track.

If you can find it there was a DVD release of the tv series where the laugh track could be disabled. It's so much better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Only the American release of the TV show had the laugh track. Whole different show without, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Ahh I see, nice :)

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