Four movie analyses.
Why do we sometimes love the bad guy in a movie?
How come we can look past a character’s negative, and even antisocial traits and start cheering for gangsters, serial killers, and master manipulators of all kinds?
On my main website, Psychology Corner, I address the main psychological reasons why we end up loving the villain, in a series of articles dedicated to some of the best characters that fit the previous description.
Here are four of them.
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This article was originally published on an external platform on September 18, 2022.