American Psycho
American Psycho is a satirical horror-thriller about a wealthy investment banker, called Patrick Bateman, who seems composed on the outside, but his life hides violent secrets. The film is set in the consumerist times of the 1980s. American Psycho critiques capitalism, masculinity, and explores the moral emptiness, blurring the line between reality and delusion.
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No Exit is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre about three strangers who find themselves locked in a room for eternity. They later discover that their punishment and real torture come from being with one another. As tensions rise and facades crumble, the play explores freedom, empathy, guilt, self-deception, and more.
Notes from Underground is a philosophical crime novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The book is narrated by a former civil servant who shares his thoughts on society, ideals, and development. Notes from Underground explores themes like free will, alienation, and psychological suffering. It is considered one of the earliest existential works that dives into the human irrationality, and the paradox of desire, both connection and isolation.
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Mr. Robot is a thriller drama TV series that follows a hacker, called Elliot, who is recruited by an anarchist to join a group aiming to take down the corrupt company he works for. As Elliot battles mental illness, the lines between reality, identity, and control begin to blur in his mind. Mr. Robot explores themes of isolation, technology, capitalism, mental illness, trauma, surveillance and control, reality and illusion, and more.
