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This movie had no soundtrack which also made this film unsettling for me. Spooky, how authentic it was
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It's funny because I'm a composer who worked many tv/movie project, but the movies that impress me the most usually have no or little music. It is indeed unsettling.
Hannibal lecter isn't supposed to be portrayed realistically though. He's larger than life!
Yeah, as far as the movie goes he's not a "real" portrayal of a psychopath. He's supposed to make you feel scary and uncomfortable. It's like going to a haunted house and complaining the killer clowns look fake.
He's supposed to make you feel worried and uncomfortable, and he nails that perfectly.
Idk, he doesn't really give me that vibe even a little bit.
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.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how genius a performance that was? Pre-Breaking Bad, I had no feelings about Jesse Plemons one way or the other. Now, every time I see him in something, I immediately think "What's this personified incarnation of evil up to now?"
There are many flavors of murdering psychopaths. A few mass murderers from history would've been called cliche portrayals today.
The banality of evil is what needs to be learned. Much like fascist rhetoric sounds stupid and is obvious in a vaccuum, when people are drenched in it, A LOT of people slowly succumb to the horrible attitude even if they never start explicitly supporting fascistic positions.
It is poison much like mental illness becomes a poison, slowly enabling mostly normal people to do terrible things, like Todd. Todd was only a psychopath in that he exhibited no sympathy, which a lot of "normal" psychopaths have. It took an enabling environment to turn Todd in to a dengerous captor and murderer.
Dan Carlin called fascism, among other things, an "intellectual contagion."
Most ideologies and religions are "viral" in the way they spread. Being able to think critically is how one stays immune.
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Fuckin Dead Eyed Todd! Dude always creeped me out. So much so that I find it hard not to see that character in everything else that actor has done.
His small role in Civil War was so creepy and memorable.
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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.
No Comfort for Musicless Films
In television too it is a huge factor.
I remember hearing that some reality show (Big Brother maybe?) didn't have any soundtrack in the beginning, and the audience couldn't decide how to feel about the somewhat mundane things going on.
No idea if that's true or not.
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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.
That's close to how it happens in the book. I believe there's a single paragraph revealing that >!Moss was killed.!< Then the story moves along.
Reddit-style angle-bracket-exclamation-point spoiler tags do not work on desktop Lemmy or, to my knowledge, any mobile app besides Sync. Lemmy spoiler tags work a little differently:
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The angle-bracket spoilers also work on the eternity client, as it's just forked from some older reddit client. I made a spoiler oopsy recently with it.
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Infinity for reddit is still alive BTW.
To whom it may concern,
MURDER! MURDER! MURDER!
Yours truly, Maurice Moss
My eyes! You've spoiled them!!
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Fyi your way of doing spoilers isn't showing up for me, here's how they work on my client:
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Wouldn't this be better with 1.) said group actually being psychologists, and 2.) a link to verify this happened at all?
edit: Apologies, I had the two fields switched in my head, but my second point stands.
Why would psychologists be better?
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
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I'd love to see the rest of the list.
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."
It's too bad that Room 214 had that run of inexplicable bad luck after that. It was probably just the haunting, though.
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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.
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I remember MASH being devoid of music as well.
Is there a list of movies that have no or very little music?
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I've run into more Patrick Batemans than Anton Chigurhs in my career.
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I didn't realise Peter Serafinowicz was in this film!
ABDICATES
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