I, psychopath : meet Sam Vaknin / Screeen Australia & New South Wales Film & Television Office present a Fibro Majestic film ; director/writer, Ian Walker ; produced by Sally Regan.
Publisher:
Film Ideas,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (approx. 60 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator: Ian Walker Sam Vaknin, Lidija Rangelovska, .
Summary:
Psychopaths...they'll charm you, manipulate you, then ruin your life. But, not all of them with a gun or a knife. In this extra ordinary documentary, suspected psychopath Sam Vaknin goes in search of a diagnosis...was he born without a conscience? "Making a movie with a psychopath," declares I, Psychopath's director Ian Walker, "is a little like poking a snake with a stick." Unwittingly, the filmmaker becomes a textbook victim. Joined by Vaknin's long-suffering but ever-loyal wife Lidija, the threesome embark on a diagnostic road trip to the world's top experts in psychopathy in which Vaknin (and his wife) undergo a battery of rigorous psychological tests and neuroscientific experiments. He is the world's first civilian to willingly seek a diagnosis for psychopathy. The former corporate criminal turns out to be a way-better psychopath than any of them imagined. By the end, Walker almost calls it quits on his own film rather than spend another day with its main subject".--ABC website.
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