What Makes You Want to Kill Someone?

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i sow, obviously, i'm not aa psychopath expert either. One of the things that's sort of surprising is that they will often do things that are just like instrumentally, just very bad ideas. They'll murder somebody for their car and then park the car in front of their house. And one one question is, if such people exist, what the hell are we to make of them? Like, i don't even think that that person, it's not even psychopathy that's making them do it. It makes me think that like, ea, leopold or brande, jus, like, i'm so random, like that's why i did it

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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