There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply...am not...there.
Read the book gentlemen. The movie barely scratched the surface at how sadistic PB really was.
That's a very fine chardonnay you're drinking. I want you to clean your vagina
Correction:
That's a very fine chardonnay you're "not" drinking :)
Realised my mistake and edited before your post ;) Hey, I'm a child of divorce, gimme a break!
Read the book gentlemen. The movie barely scratched the surface at how sadistic PB really was.
Read the book gentlemen. The movie barely scratched the surface at how sadistic PB really was.
I swear every friend of mine in NY that's in finance has the entire script memorized. Such a cult classic.
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply...am not...there.
Is that Ivana Trump?
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I swear every friend of mine in NY that's in finance has the entire script memorized. Such a cult classic.
American Psycho (2000)
Part 1 http://vimeo.com/50999939
Part 2 http://vimeo.com/51006833
Part 3 http://vimeo.com/51026032
thanks man why is this such a "cult classic" though?
thanks man why is this such a "cult classic" though?
thanks man why is this such a "cult classic" though?
As _bruce_ suggests above with regard to its "cult" status among shallow, self-absorbed, neurotically scorekeeping professionals, yeah, it pretty much increases douchebag serotonin levels.thats cause he never killed any one its all in his head ;)
For others, the violence, narcissism, and psychosis of its charming and witty protagonist is alluring and amusing.
And for more literary types, it's a postmodern critique of consumer and corporate culture wherein you cannot trust any sort of identity and narrative; especially, as the novel's "end"* implies, self-identity and self-narrative** (of course, there are other interpretations).
* The novel ends, "THIS IS NOT AN EXIT."
** The film ends with Bateman reflecting that his "confession has meant nothing."
you probably wouldn't get it as you were part of that whole Yale thing.
thats cause he never killed any one its all in his head ;)
That's one interpretation. Another is that he did kill people (and Paul Allen), but there's so much mistaken identity going on that few people actually know who is who. For example, note how some of his colleagues mistake who he (Patrick Bateman) is in the office "show me your card" scene. And also how Paul Allen has luch with Bateman thinking he is Halberstram. The novel is set up this way. It's supposed to be ambiguous.
Bateman was a non memorable person. The fact people mistaken him all the time shows that no matter how expensive his suits, how nice his business cards, how much he spends on glasses and 1000's of situps, he still can't stand out from the crowd he is in. They are all clones of each other. He was gifted his dad's company and is a spoiled child. He draws up these scenes as a way to stand out in his head. He so badly just wants to be noticed. At the end of the book when they scroll through his journal you can tell he is a sociopath. He admitted over and over that he is a killer and people just laugh at him. No one takes him serious. It was BEE way of showing how the wall street crowd think they are so special but are all just a subclass of humans.
That's one interpretation. Another is that he did kill people (and Paul Allen), but there's so much mistaken identity going on that few people actually know who is who. For example, note how some of his colleagues mistake who he (Patrick Bateman) is in the office "show me your card" scene. And also how Paul Allen has lunch with Bateman thinking he is Halberstram. The novel is set up this way. It's supposed to be ambiguous.nope , when the atm machine starts talking to him that gives it away ;)
nope , when the atm machine starts talking to him that gives it away ;)