Why did david try to partner with the heartless woman?

The point of these scenes is more to capture how much you are willing sacrifice out of desperation when you are reeling after a break up. Obviously this is an extreme circumstance as he only had six days left to live as a human. But at this point he was close enough to the pain that he felt being in a relationship devoid of emotion would be a simpler fit than trying to put himself back down the road of something that would hurt him again.

Self preservation. A part of David's character was that he was a hopeless romantic in a world that treated love as a commodity. Everyone seemed to be coupling based on arbitrary traits they share, rather than real emotion. Note the way he behaves at the hotel. He approaches women naturally and compliments them, and completely ignores the desperate woman who throws herself at him. David doesn't just want a partner, he wants a lover.

Once his friend stole the girl with the bloody nose and the blonde girl spurned his advances, David had to scramble to find an agreeable partner. It was always easier for him to pretend he didn't have feelings than it was for him to pretend he did, as evidenced by how unfazed he seemed when his wife left him.

I have no idea, other than maybe desperation and stupidity. Like most of this movie it made absolutely no sense whatsoever.






Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

Was it only to escape from the animal transformation. Had it been the reason why didn't he just chose any other woman?

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He said that it was easier to fake not having feelings that you have than to fake feelings you don't have.
To pair up they had to have a "true match commonality" and not a faked one.
So, he was able to fake not having feelings about her choking to death and that convinced he was being honest about his callousness. (which he wasn't)

That whole situation was a commentary on how desperation to avoid ending up alone (or in this case, turning into a lobster), will cause your brain to convince you to settle for whomever for whatever implausible reason.

it's a commentary about how people often found it easier to suppress their needs and wants in order to be with their ideal person no matter how toxic the relationship is and yet completely incapable of being in an less ideal but elthier relationship.

He finds her more physically attractive than the biscuit woman, and he is desperate. He decides to try the nosebleed ploy but with heartlessness as the shared "distinguishing characteristic".

He says (he is quoted as saying by the narrator) that it is easier not to show what you really feel than to pretend to feel what you don't feel. So pretending not to feel anything when someone is in death agonies, choking, etc. is theoretically easier than pretending to love someone.

The heartless woman can always count on getting another day at the hotel by shooting a loner, so outing him as "incompatible" costs her nothing.

in the hotel he wanted someone attractive so after the 2 young girls were off he chose he heartless woman.

And all the pieces matter (The Wire)