Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho showing off the book the movie is based on
The Big Picture Based on the wickedly brilliant novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the 2000 film American Psycho is a vicious satire depicting the empty grotesquerie of 1980s corporate yuppie life and male ego. Directed by Mary Harron, it strikes a balance between stylish and horrific, with a career-defining performance by Christian Bale to tie all the chaos together.
American Psycho RCrimeDramaThriller In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman , lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective , the fiance , the mistress , the coworker , and the secretary . This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster.
There are arguments about this all over the internet about whether Patrick Bateman killed anyone at all. If he did, how many of them were real, and which ones were a product of his psychosis? The first theory is the most straightforward; that he didn't, and all of this was an elaborate fantasy a sad, pathetic man was having while his perception of reality breaks down.
Bret Easton Ellis goes further in an interview with Film School Rejects. Not that he had any problems with the film itself, he thought it was fine, but he considers his book unadaptable purely because film is a visual medium, and in visually portraying the breakdown in reality also defeats the purpose of the story.
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