I watched American Psycho today for the first time. I was visiting a friend of mine and he had recently purchased it on DVD, so we decided to watch it. He'd already seen it and loved the movie, while I was going into it completely blind.
It was a really interesting movie. I want to say that the movie was somewhere just over two hours long, but I'm not exactly sure. I was getting really into the movie after just over an hour of view time, and was looking forward to seeing what major challenge the main character would have to overcome, or whatever was going to happen. I'm not exactly a big film buff; I had no idea what was going to happen, missed all of the foreshadowing, and was completely enthralled with the movie. I kept on wondering aloud about weird things that were happening on-screen, and commenting on things that didn't make sense, but hadn't begun to piece together the major twist (that I didn't know existed, of course, so I wasn't looking for it or anything) in the movie yet.
After a solid 90 or so minutes into the movie, my friend's sister enters the living room and decides to sit down and join us. I'd put us just before the scene with pinpoint chainsaw dropping; in other words, just prior to things starting to get "less believable," if you will.
After a few minutes of watching the film, she blurts out:
"Oh! I think I've seen this movie before! He only imagined killing those people, right?"
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That's not really a spoiler. At least some of the murders could have been real.
Edit: That also happens in the novel; some of the murders seem plausible but, towards the end, they get increasingly ridiculous and you start to question whether or not he's hallucinating half of it.
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I thought the point was that the yuppies were so invested in keeping up their bull**** lives that they just completely denied anything Patrick did ever happened
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it isn't even like a "maybe THIS happened" thing, he definitely killed them.
Yeah. If you believe 100% of the movie is real, then you also believe an ATM was telling him to feed it a cat...
In the book his delusions are even more vivid and absurd. And iirc, in the part with the cop shootout, the writing style literally shifts to a third-person narrative which caught me off guard and also served to illustrate to me how far off the deep end he'd gone. So, it seems perfectly logical that some of the kills could've been in his head, but not necessarily all, yeah.
I thought the point was that the yuppies were so invested in keeping up their bull**** lives that they just completely denied anything Patrick did ever happened
that is the point. the author has even confirmed it.
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and I guess I should say that maybe not everything in the movie/book actually happened, obviously the ATM did not tell him that....but he did kill people.
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Spoilers partway through a movie are the worst. Similar thing happened to me.
Cruel Intentions Spoilers
About two minutes before said event happened, my friend (who'd gone out of the room for a few minutes to get her dinner) came back in and said "has he been killed by the car yet?". This was obviously stupid, but what made it even more stupid was that HE WAS ON ONSCREEN AT THE TIME.
Fortunately Cruel Intentions sucks, so meh.
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I didn't really reflect on the movie afterwards because of the spoiler, tbqh.
It explains why the real estate lady was so disgusted with him in their brief moment together, and why the apartment looked like it had just been painted, cleaned, etc. - because why would that be necessary if he had completely hallucinated everything? At the same time though... people renovate property before selling it, so I dunno.
My interpretation when posting this topic was that everything happened in his mind. All of the events we had seen unfold in the movie were what Bateman imagined/hallucinated while drawing tiny sketches in his day planner that Jean is looking at near the very end of the movie. The long monologues he had given were always about a song or album - and I took that as what he was listening to on his tape/CD player while drawing the sketches.
But I like this better!
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