Review of I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) by Deanomite — 13 Jan 2020

I like a movie where someone questions themselves. The protagonist here seeks to understand his nature and the role will plays in relation to it. I think just asking these questions in itself is enough to alienate someone.

Our society seems intent on crucifying the individual, any deviation from the norm is taken to be a serial killer. He seems to be logical, dispassionate and curious. Everyone assumes themselves to be perfect and any inspection of any sort implies an imperfection and must be attacked.

I really like that he makes a point to compliment someone every time he starts fantasizing about killing them, the only problem with that is complimenting people feeds their narcissism. I also like that he knows sociopaths don't see people as people (sociopaths are gossips, they cause trouble through gossip), the thing is that narcissists, psychopaths and histrionics see things the same way, so technically there are more people like him than not.

Really, since most people are dominated by unconscious instincts, they are not really people so he's not looking wrong. I like the sleepy winter town setting, and that he has friends explicitly to be more normal.

I really like Max Records, it's strange he has not done a movie since this 4 years ago.