At least three of the four had futures mapped out, prospects that were firmly within grasp Spencer Reinhard wanted to be an artist, Chas Allen wanted to go into business, Eric Borsuk wanted to be an FBI agent. Each of the four were enrolled in college when they began planning the heist, although Lipka would abandon his sports scholarship shortly beforehand. (He is introduced stealing food from a butchers.) Similarly, Spencer Reinhard meditates on his own feelings of worthlessness, “Art has to be about more than ‘my life is great and I can draw very well.'”Īmerican Animals returns time and time again to the idea that the four kids at the centre of the story were the textbook definition of “good kids.” They each had a proper education and a loving family. Justifying their scheme, Lipka boasts, “We’re supposed to be hunter-gatherers.” It is suggested that his schemes stem from a sense of inadequacy tied to the fact that he has little need to hunt or gather. It is a crisis of identity, of young men trying to find a reason or a place in the world. American Animals offers a sketch of masculinity in crisis.
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