food, oxygen, and water" (Huffman, 410) were met, yet he was not satisfied socially in his need of "companionship and achievement." (Huffman, 410) D-FENS, who had been kept away from his daughter by a restraining order for an extended period of time needed her love an acceptance and was determined to obtain it by making it to her birthday party by the end of the day. This need for approval pushed D-FENS to carry out, and justify, his actions throughout the day. Thoughts of his daughter, Beth, acted as D-FENS' calming mechanism in his destructive journey homeward. Viewers see calmness and compassion from D-FENS at few moments in the film, one instance is when he purchases a unicorn snow-globe for his daughter. When a foe of D-FENS later crushes the snow globe, there is extreme retaliation, which for the first time ends in murder.
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