The conclusion of this movie is not that Abe got meaning because he was doing something good for someone else; it wasn't even because he gained meaning; what really happened is that he found away to unleash is Id (his most animalistic instincts) and channel his evil urges.
What trully made him happy is that he was convinced he found a way to one up everyone and he felt on top of the world.
Ironically, this movie two main characters are really the same coin from two sides. They are both, in a sense, infantile, innocent, trying to step out into a chaotic area and taking risks to find their limits and their exciting side (within themselves through life). She did it through him because he fulfilled her fantasies of male dominance, mystery and excitement, and he did it through his self-destructive behaviors and ultimately his newly found raison d'être in getting away with murder.
Although, his/her rationalizations are wrapped in moralistic overtones (she was stepping outside the conventional and he was trying to argue the conventional to her favor), both him and her switch positions in the end as the drama unfolds. He doubles down on his rationalizations of murder being legitimate over morals, over health and happiness - even though he was inversely becoming the evil he thought to rid the world - and she to some extend colluded with him until she realized not that it was immoral but that it was too dangerous. All of her actions (as his) where predicated on excitement, power/sexual games and in the end survival.
It's also worth noting that this started a philosophical dissertation and transitioned into a coming of age young female erotic-thriller fantasy.
This was all about excitement, stupid and egotistical pursuits and narcissistic emancipation.
They were both juvenile dazzled fools that decided to play around with the forbiden fruit out of their need to step out of their overly comfort zones (he a bored successful teacher with a cliché past of faux excitement and she as a coddled upper-middle class gal).
It's a very superficial and light take on a sad reality that people are turning into as if life was subject to their own narcissistic spicy juvenile experiments, where real consequences exist but they're brushed off as just a chapter or a book in a shelf.
It's a take on a society that is losing conscience and has become the characters of their own fantasies picked up their favourite explicit novels or tv series.
What trully made him happy is that he was convinced he found a way to one up everyone and he felt on top of the world.
Ironically, this movie two main characters are really the same coin from two sides. They are both, in a sense, infantile, innocent, trying to step out into a chaotic area and taking risks to find their limits and their exciting side (within themselves through life). She did it through him because he fulfilled her fantasies of male dominance, mystery and excitement, and he did it through his self-destructive behaviors and ultimately his newly found raison d'être in getting away with murder.
Although, his/her rationalizations are wrapped in moralistic overtones (she was stepping outside the conventional and he was trying to argue the conventional to her favor), both him and her switch positions in the end as the drama unfolds. He doubles down on his rationalizations of murder being legitimate over morals, over health and happiness - even though he was inversely becoming the evil he thought to rid the world - and she to some extend colluded with him until she realized not that it was immoral but that it was too dangerous. All of her actions (as his) where predicated on excitement, power/sexual games and in the end survival.
It's also worth noting that this started a philosophical dissertation and transitioned into a coming of age young female erotic-thriller fantasy.
This was all about excitement, stupid and egotistical pursuits and narcissistic emancipation.
They were both juvenile dazzled fools that decided to play around with the forbiden fruit out of their need to step out of their overly comfort zones (he a bored successful teacher with a cliché past of faux excitement and she as a coddled upper-middle class gal).
It's a very superficial and light take on a sad reality that people are turning into as if life was subject to their own narcissistic spicy juvenile experiments, where real consequences exist but they're brushed off as just a chapter or a book in a shelf.
It's a take on a society that is losing conscience and has become the characters of their own fantasies picked up their favourite explicit novels or tv series.