Perfect Ending, there is a Seligman in every guy

So a 65 year old virgin man who likes books who you have no idea about how he lives and what he lived and one out of a thousand reason lives in a crappy place is automatically a loser why? Not even a loser but a "perfect loser"?

Of course being a virgin with 65 doesn't automatically make you a loser if and only if let's say you consciously decided to swear off sex and live a life devoted to books, however, in the context of the movie we are given certain clues that invoke the image of a loser and especially a "perfect loser"
why?
Well, first off we should agree on a certain definition of a loser, what is a loser?
The question isn't easy to answer because in our society the term "loser" is often used or rather misused by arrogant people in order to belittle other people and thus act out a sense of superiority over them, is someone automatically a "loser" just because he lives in the basement under his mother's living room? Most likely he has no other choice due to economical circumstances which doesn't necessarily mean that he failed in life or that his situation won't improve.
Does this mean that the term "loser" cannot be properly applied at all in an objective way as it's always a matter of perspective whether a certain way of life is considered a success or failure, for instance often very underprivileged working-class families consider their children a success in the sense of richness, they are proud of their children. Is a drug dealer who gets caught automatically a "loser" although he/she never had a real chance in life?
Is a serial rapist a "loser" although he was raped in childhood himself and developed a sociopathic nature which controls him?
So maybe it would be unfair to call Seligman a "loser" just because of one single huge mistake he did and instead we should pity him or whatever, I mean the amount of women you had cannot be the measure of a man's respectability or success or admiration in life, can it?
Yet if we assume that a "loser" is a generally unhappy person who lacks crucial social skills that would enable him to successfully interact with other people especially with the other sex and who lacks familiy ties and furthermore does the wrong decisions at the wrong time and fails in achieving what he/she most desires than Seligman would be indeed the archetype of a loser as all points apply to him, plus there is this ironic element on top of it that he is the potentially only man on earth who got refused by the potentially biggest and filthiest nymphomaniac in history of mankind who even sucked off a pedophile out of pity, and eventually got killed by her for trying to rape her (!), imagine how stupid it is to try to rape a wrecked nymphomaniac of all people whereas the odds to get laid by her would have been significantly higher if he just had asked her, I mean he made himself a rapist not for sadistic reasons but simply out of clumsiness because he never learned how to approach a woman despite his 65 years and the thousands books he read and this as pointed out already, makes him a "perfect loser" in my eyes, whatever he thought himself to represent, it turned out to be only a shallow facade the moment he showed his inner self by becoming a sex maniac.



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