Sociopaths and Emotions (Spoilers)
It is stated that a social path does not feel sympathy or cannot love. But in this movie when the Driver's girlfriend kills herself, he screamed seemingly devastate. He seemed as if he really did have genuine feelings for her. I understand that a social path can fake emotions to be able to deceive, and control an individual, but in this case, the driver had no reason to display such strong emotion after his girlfriend died. He did not need to continue acting like he loved or cared about her. He could have reacted in a cold angry manner which would have been expected even for someone who may not be in love, but wants revenge for the demise of his object. The fact that he screamed, and reacted so strongly made me wonder if he did indeed love her or at least cared about her. If this is the case, can a social path fall in love, though rarely?
I would have loved to see a prequel based on his girlfriend, whom I wish was the main actress since I was very fascinated by the fact that she fell in love with a social path that is enable to love or display sympathy. It was interesting to see that she was tormented with the fact that she loved such an untamed beast that was obsess with somebody else. To the point that she was willing to kill herself whether out of guilt for loving a social or due to not having the heart of this man whom she taught would heal the wound that he caused in the past just by loving her in order to erase the horror he had caused in the first place. It made sense that she taught that only the one that caused the pain could heal the wound. Maybe the only way for her to be healed was to make this cold hearted monster finally lose control by loving her, thus conquering the beast so he can become human. That would have meant that she won in the end despite the torment he had caused her. A way for her to get revenge, but still have his heart.
My question is do you think he was in love with her? And why?