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Topic	Finally got around to watching American Psycho spoilers
Squall28 10/02/22 3:14:35 PM #16:	Doe posted... In that case, what is the significance of showing the audience that scene? The immediate previous scene just established that Bateman can't be brought accountable for his feelings/actions even when he tries. Her face is even ambiguous as we glimpse it before the camera changes to focus the drawings, it kinda looks like she's smiling even, as though to think "wow Bateman, you dork." To show that scene in the final three minutes of the film as Bateman's place in the world is wrapped up and he gives his monologue-- what is the utility of that scene if it's to show that somebody is aware of Bateman's murders? To say that actually, the mask can be pulled off? That doesn't seem to agree with everything else presented in the ending. The significance is the reveal to Jean. Also one of the writers of the movie literally said they tried to avoid "it was all a dream" interpretation. https://www.moviemaker.com/american-psycho-ending-explained-by-writers-mary-harron-guinevere-turner/ To me and Mary, the book left it up in the air, too, what was real and what was not real. We didnt think that everything was real because some of it is literally surreal. But we just decided, together, that we both really disliked movies where the big reveal is that it was all in someones head or it was all a dream, Turner said. We just both find that annoying. We just said were going to make a really conscious effort to have it be real, and then at some point hes sort of perceiving things differently, but theyre really happening. Director also said "One thing I think is a failure on my part is people keep coming out of the film thinking that it's all a dream, and I never intended that. All I wanted was to be ambiguous in the way that the book was. I think it's a failure of mine in the final scene because I just got the emphasis wrong. I should have left it more open ended. It makes it look like it was all in his head, and as far as I'm concerned, it's not." Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/611833/american-psycho-ending-explained/?utm_campaign=clip --- You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. -Misattributed to CS Lewis <cite>Squall28 posted [p:968440251] in Finally go... [t:80185048]...</cite> <quote>Doe posted... </cite><quote>In that case, what is the significance of showing the audience that scene? The immediate previous scene just established that Bateman can't be brought accountable for his feelings/actions even when he tries.Her face is even ambiguous as we glimpse it before the camera changes to focus the drawings, it kinda looks like she's smiling even, as though to think "wow Bateman, you dork."To show that scene in the final three minutes of the film as Bateman's place in the world is wrapped up and he gives his monologue-- what is the utility of that scene if it's to show that somebody is aware of Bateman's murders? To say that actually, the mask can be pulled off? That doesn't seem to agree with everything else presented in the ending.</quote>The significance is the reveal to Jean.Also one of the writers of the movie literally said they tried to avoid "it was all a dream" interpretation.https://www.moviemaker.com/american-psycho-ending-explained-by-writers-mary-harron-guinevere-turner/<quote>To me and Mary, the book left it up in the air, too, what was real and what was not real. We didnt think that everything was real because some of it is literally surreal. But we just decided, together, that we both really disliked movies where the big reveal is that it was all in someones head or it was all a dream, Turner said.We just both find that annoying. We just said were going to make a really conscious effort to have it be real, and then at some point hes sort of perceiving things differently, but theyre really happening.</quote>Director also said"One thing I think is a failure on my part is people keep coming out of the film thinking that it's all a dream, and I never intended that. All I wanted was to be ambiguous in the way that the book was. I think it's a failure of mine in the final scene because I just got the emphasis wrong. I should have left it more open ended. It makes it look like it was all in his head, and as far as I'm concerned, it's not."Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/611833/american-psycho-ending-explained/?utm_campaign=clip --- You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.-Misattributed to CS Lewis</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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