![]() I mean, come on, could he be more obvious? This clearly isn’t fooling anyone. To be fair, your average psychopath does a better job than this guy. At the risk of engaging in further wolf bashing-but in keeping with the lupine theme established thus far-the psychopath is the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing. He (or, less frequently, she) is the monster among us, hidden in plain sight. ![]() The psychopath represents perhaps the starkest example of the disparity between appearance and reality. Presumably, part of what intrigued Hitchcock about psychopaths is something that intrigues many people about them: their almost confounding propensity for the most monstrous behavior imaginable combined with the appearance of utter normalcy, even banality. Among filmmakers fascinated by violent psychopathology-of which there are more than a few-perhaps none were more fascinated than Hitchcock. In other words, we like our wolves best when they do more than just bare their teeth. ![]() However, invariably the psychopaths that most capture our interest are those whose pathology manifests in overt acts of violence. Cinema no doubt has its share of characters like this-ones whose sheer rapaciousness makes them more wolf than man (in reality, rapaciousness is very much a human trait and not a lupine one, but no matter).
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