Psychopath In The Film Breathe

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The short film Breathe directed by Toby Meakins depicts two men conjuring a ghost by holding their breath, the longer they hold their breath the more she does. The one man who had obviously done the interaction before then suffocates the man that he introduces to the supernatural girl. I believe that he does this because he classifies as a person with antisocial personality disorder. I think this because he shows a lot of indicators that would classify him as a psychopath or a sociopath. There are slight distinctions between psychopaths and sociopaths although they do share multiple personality traits including a disregard for laws and social morals, disregard for the rights of others, a failure to feel remorse or guilt, and a tendency to …show more content…
The character Jamie manipulates his acquaintance Tyler into going to a rundown warehouse to see a phantom, which shows his ability to charm and manipulate the people around him which is indicative of psychopathic behavior. Then through promising Tyler relations with the ghost, as long as he holds his breath. Jamie tricks him into holding his breath and then suffocate him to use his breath to fuel May and be able to share an intimate moment with her. He sees this as not a problem due to his lack of morals, which is as mentioned a symptom. The scene in which Jamie is choking Tyler there are multiple shots of his emotionless face which I believe further illustrates his detachment from right and wrong and highlights his inability to feel emotion. There is no anger, pleasure, happiness, or sadness, which I believe really emphasizes his true emotionless nature as a psychopath. He then approaches may to reap his rewards for murdering Tyler and seems to have no pleasure or joy for attaining his goals, he just turns away and starts disposing of the corpse of his “friend.” Another indicator is the intro sequence, which really accentuates his meticulous planning as he lays the rug just so and places the chair in its specific place in preparation for killing Tyler, practicing what he is going to

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