ugh i hate how i can't look at Dan the same way after finding out he's literally just like the monsters he kills </3 can't believe he used to be a disgusting bully too...
yeah he was a bully. we always knew he was fcked up in the head, given the brutal murders he commits, even though he kills "bad people" only, those who escape the justice system, acting as a vigilante. I think the death of his love interest/victim as a teenager, and subsequent unsolved case of his murder, made Dan into the man he is now. He really sees the murder of these people as "good deeds" (just like we, the audience, do, since we approve of his actions in a way), and therefore a way to make it up to his lost love interest/victim, who was also harmed by such a "bad person" - that wasn't him. Ig he's repenting in a way? but sure, he's still a psycho. The reason we enjoy this is bc he's harming bad people, not "good" ones, but he's still a serial killer. He could all kill them in a more detached way, but every kill is personally crafted, plus the photographs he keeps of their expressions... you could say he's killing his own type, but all those he killed "deserved it", in the sense that they should've been held accountable for their crimes, and society was better off without them.
ugh i hate how i can't look at Dan the same way after finding out he's literally just like the monsters he kills </3 can't believe he used to be a disgusting bully too...
yeah he was a bully. we always knew he was fcked up in the head, given the brutal murders he commits, even though he kills "bad people" only, those who escape the justice system, acting as a vigilante. I think the death of his love interest/victim as a teenager, and subsequent unsolved case of his murder, made Dan into the man he is now. He really sees the murder of these people as "good deeds" (just like we, the audience, do, since we approve of his actions in a way), and therefore a way to make it up to his lost love interest/victim, who was also harmed by such a "bad person" - that wasn't him. Ig he's repenting in a way? but sure, he's still a psycho. The reason we enjoy this is bc he's harming bad people, not "good" ones, but he's still a serial killer. He could all kill them in a more detached way, but every kill is personally crafted, plus the photographs he keeps of their expressions... you could say he's killing his own type, but all those he killed "deserved it", in the sense that they should've been held accountable for their crimes, and society was better off without them.