American Psycho (2000) Full Reaction
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I love that this movie still causes so much debate and speculation a quarter-century after it was released. By the way, in 2013 Huey Lewis and Weird Al Yankovic made a hilarious parody video of the ax murder scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk15H6PjBis
Gaius Frakking Baltar
2025-12-20 15:23:04 +0000 UTCFrom my listening in on other people's theories, I think Patrick has committed SOME murders, but not all of the ones that we see in the film. He gets away with the ones he really did because all of his relationships are so superficial that his "friends" can't tell each other apart. Not only is he mistaken for Marcus over and over again, but they all get each other wrong as well. At the end, when his lawyer states that he had dinner with Paul Allen in London, it's that he had a meeting with somebody else and THOUGHT it was Paul Allen. Just like Paul thought he was meeting Marcus when it was Patrick. Because they're all vapid, interchangeable yuppies who wear near-identical clothing styles and visit the same restaurants and are all having affairs with each other's partners. And so excited to hear you're working on a screenplay!
JBK405
2025-12-20 03:27:43 +0000 UTCA movie that people constantly misunderstand, from all sides. As Bret Ellis the author of the novel said, he made the misogyny and violence so over the top you couldn't confuse it for anything but satire! Which is a credit to this film as Patrick and his cohorts say the most offensive things, yet it's genuinely hilarious to listen to these buffoons ramble on. While this is Mary Harron's best known directed movie, I highly recommend The Notorious Bettie Page and I Shot Andy Warhol, incredible films.
Wesley
2025-12-20 00:12:55 +0000 UTCThis has long been one of my favorites. What a wonderful surprise today. You keep choosing so well! I don't know if I can get on board with all his friends being people in his mind, since Jean hears the answering machine at Patrick's apartment and recognizes the voice, asking if it's Evelyn. Maybe he could have made up a fiancee and told her about it, but Bateman is also printed on his business cards, and he catches himself at dinner with Paul, when he accidentally calls himself Patrick instead of Marcus, and corrects himself, asking "What are you thinking?!" He didn't want to give himself away. I lean more toward it all being in his head. It's not just Patrick's name that people get wrong. So many people throughout the movie are mistaken for others, usually in one line of seemingly throwaway dialogue. As a side note, Justin Theroux's character, Timothy Bryce, is named Timothy Price in the novel. Interesting that the ladies who adapted this screenplay decided to include that change, for what seems to be no important reason.
Shawn Goforth
2025-12-19 19:30:28 +0000 UTCOmg I didn’t know you were doing this one!!
Melissa Reynolds
2025-12-19 17:04:36 +0000 UTC
