The Stepfather: Antisocial Personality Disor

759 Words2 Pages

The movie “The Stepfather” portrays David, a psychopath who tries to find the perfect family for himself. He seduces divorced women with children using his charming looks and romantic words. Once David is accepted as a member of the family, he murders the wife and kids. The movie begins with David transforming himself into another man, entirely changing his looks and leaving a dead family behind. He moves to a new town with a new name and meets a divorced woman with kids in the supermarket. Later on, he gets engaged to the mother and he starts to show suspicious behavior. The stepfather in the movie has Antisocial Personality Disorder. Antisocial Personality Disorder is described by an example of dismissal for and infringement of the privileges …show more content…

The more deplorable, unsafe, or hazardous behavior patterns are alluded to as sociopathic or psychopathic. There has been a lot of discussion with regards to the refinement between these depictions. Sociopathy is predominantly portrayed as something seriously amiss with an individual's conscious; psychopathy is described as a total absence of conscious in regard to others. A few experts depict individuals with this constellation of symptoms as "stone icy" to the privileges of others. Entanglements of this issue incorporate imprisonment, drug abuse, and liquor addiction. Other symptoms include: disregard for societal laws, violation of the physical and/or emotional rights of others, lack of stability in job and home life, irritability, aggressiveness, lack of regret or guilt, persistent irresponsibility, recklessness, hastiness, abruptness, and deceitfulness (Antisocial Personality Disorder). The Stepfather showed a realistic portrayal of this disorder. It is also possible for people to commit crimes and not feel any remorse for their actions. Moreover, there are cases of people murdering their entire families for no apparent reason. In one case study, Tommy Lynn Sells admits to killing so many people that he lost count. He mentions that he feels no emotion whatsoever and that he is addicted to murdering people (Famous Case Studies and People with the

Open Document