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Just pass me the rope
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I mean murders aside, obviously.
Here's the main things people brings up to prove Elliot wrong:
The thing is, everyone avoids coming across as entitled for this reason, including us. Consciously sometimes like in the above example, and a lot of the time subconsciously as a social skill. But it's a facade, we all feel like Elliot deep down. Who doesn't care more about their own problems than other people's? Who doesn't feel they deserve to have whatever it is they want in life? No one. That's the thing. Elliot wasn't a worse person than anyone else, he was just too authentic in the way he talked and simply wrote what he felt, and, well, I don't support the killings, but at least he did what he said he'd do.
That's the actual difference between Elliot's My Twisted World and movies like Nightcrawler or the Joker, which are based but, after all, written commercially by a normie to sell.
Here's the main things people brings up to prove Elliot wrong:
- He only wanted Stacies: Wrong. He did wish to be with a Stacy, but in his manifesto he often complains about having no girl with him at all to take walks with as opposed to alone, etc. He also often lamented having no one who cares about him in general.
- He was racist: Wrong. He brought up race as an insult when he was upset with someone who wasn't white, but didn't actually hate anyone just for being ethnic as far as I can tell.
The thing is, everyone avoids coming across as entitled for this reason, including us. Consciously sometimes like in the above example, and a lot of the time subconsciously as a social skill. But it's a facade, we all feel like Elliot deep down. Who doesn't care more about their own problems than other people's? Who doesn't feel they deserve to have whatever it is they want in life? No one. That's the thing. Elliot wasn't a worse person than anyone else, he was just too authentic in the way he talked and simply wrote what he felt, and, well, I don't support the killings, but at least he did what he said he'd do.
That's the actual difference between Elliot's My Twisted World and movies like Nightcrawler or the Joker, which are based but, after all, written commercially by a normie to sell.