What about you, girls?

"In the end I think she handled things the best way she could have, by simply moving on with her life and not allowing Chad the satisfaction he was really looking for in his game."

I sort of doubt she didn't. She did it. I guarantee you she cried, and suffered. Even if, we make the absurde assumption she didn't, Chad wouldn't have any way of knowing it. So he pretty much enjoyed this to the fullest. The interesting thing, though, is that we tend to do things for other persons a lot easyer than the things we do for us. Pepole want not to suffer in order to not give someone satisfaction, not so they could be happy. And there are a lot of situations like that in life.

See, that was Chad's power. He did everithing for HIM. He didn't care for others. But this sort of egocentric power can be harvested. I hope... :P

I'm a girl, just saw this film for the first time. It's a good movie, to be sure, well crafted and captivating. I'm not sure if I liked it though.
Its an interesting film, and should absolutely be discussed, but I didn't love it.
I think it's interesting that most people (here at least) concentrate on Chad's character hating women. I don't think he did. He rants as much about his dislike of the corporate ladder, the 20-something brainless underlings who clutter the break room with garbage, as he does about women. Chad was addicted to power. Power over Christine, and power over Howard. that was his great victory. this plot destroyed his "friend" more than it hurt Christine. Howard was demoted, and emotionally crushed.
And I don't think Howard was our hero either. He was too weak to stand up to Chad. Too simple to see that he was being played. I can't decide which of the two men i found more repugnant.
Chad was certainly a sociopath, lest we forget the scene where he demands that kid show him his balls.
Some things he says though, the idea that in the 90's the position of the white christian college educated male was fading. Those things cut deep. those are ideas, and themes that no one talks about. A feeling of male entitlement slipping away to political correctness. Do I agree? No. But it is interesting.
Chad reminded me of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, disdain for everything around him, rooted in his own superiority.

Don't you need to be reckless, negatively impulsive, and just in general not give a *beep* about your life at all or society's rules to be considered a full blown psycopath?