

I guess as we get older we ask more of our art than springer, or the WWF, or slasher flicks. I've grown up since the age of Hills Have Eyes and trash like The Beyond, watching people suffer no longer seems significant. Upon first hearing about this movie, I had no desire to see it. I wasn't familiar with him before this, but everyone will be after this. And incredible performance by the lead actor. and the mask, his mask of sanity, is beginning to run. Bateman's(Chris Bale's) face at times when he is under stress, takes on a plastic look, a glossy, sweaty sheen, and for all the world it looks like he's wearing a mask. And never before has makeup, played such a mesmerizing part in a movie. He is the American dream, taken to its cannibalistic extremes. He eats at his fellowman (woman) but in his bloodlust he eats at himself. He feeds to fill the emptiness, but the more he feeds the emptier he gets.

It's only in the extremes of his addictions he begins to feel something, anything. Bateman attains everything the materialistic times tells him he should want, but once he gets it he feels nothing. The right card, or the right cloth, or the right table, or the right watch, how these are the signposts of an empty age and an empty soul, and how these things have more value than your fellow man. Bateman putting on his makeup, or simply trying to get a restaurant, and the near apocalyptic importance, such minutiae makes in the lives of empty men.
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I found the movie as a whole riveting, loved the restraint shown (and disagree with those calling for more gore, I think Mary should be applauded for her deft hand, the scenes have more power for what is not shown), and was captivated by nearly every scene, by scenes others have called boring, but I found profound. How American Psycho is an examination of our times, and our modern theologies. Found myself thinking, an examination of bateman is an examination of men by the name of Reagan and Bush. An examination, satire, critique of a time, and type of thinking.Įven before seeing the ending, I thought how much bateman lives in people. I found it brilliantly directed, and a superbly acted examination of excess, and boredom, and evil.

And contrary to what some have said, the film does have many merits. So my review is based solely on the merits of the film. But as others have stated any movie that requires you to read the book, to "get" the movie, is ultimately a failure as a movie. Those who consider it a masterpiece, those who consider it unredeemable, boring trash, and by far the largest segment, those who see it as a flawed masterpiece. A good sampling I think, and this movie has three distinct cheering sections. I've browsed some of your comments, not all 400+ to be sure. And it seems I'm not the only one left vaguely adrift by the ambiguous ending. Having just finished American Psycho, I came to IMDB to get some clarification on the ending. That disgust ends up manifesting itself in wanting to rid the world of those people, he not seeing them as people but only of those characteristics he wants to rid. In other words, he is comprised of a shell resembling a human that contains only greed and disgust, greed in wanting what others may have, and disgust for those who do not meet his expectations and for himself in not being the first or the best. He, like those in his network, are vain, narcissistic, egomaniacal and competitive, always having to one up everyone else in that presentation of oneself, but he, unlike the others, realizes that, for himself, all of these are masks to hide what is truly underneath, someone/something inhuman in nature. Patrick has a routinized morning regimen to maintain his appearance of attractiveness and fitness. Twenty-seven year old Wall Streeter Patrick Bateman travels among a closed network of the proverbial beautiful people, that closed network in only they able to allow others like themselves in in a feeling of superiority. Scientific letter: gestalt psychotherapy in the outpatient treatment of borderline personality disorder: A case report. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Effectiveness of gestalt therapy on self-efficacy of divorced women.

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