r/AmericanPsycho

To preface i am acutely aware of the fact he is a reprehensible and frankly horrid person rather than a misunderstood sigma.

He squanders his life seeking recognition and validation or just desperately attempting to fit in. Dorsia , the Fisher account, a nicer apartment that happens to overlook a slightly better area, pop albums , all to simply craft a veneer of affluence over other yuppies.

He catalogues music, purchases tailored suit not out of a personal desire , but to simply relay his superiority.

In a way i think he is more like a conjunction of labels,brands, and contemporary societal ideals all encapsulated into one man.

His relationships are as vapid/shallow as his lifestyle, his friends or associates mutually harbors essentially little to no regard for him, constantly mistaking him for someone else due to how interchangeable they all are.

If my recollections are correct then i think a passage (him peering into a minor fracture inside of a bathroom and remarking how he could disappear and nobody would notice)within the novel exemplifies this.

Amidst a world brimming with life he is still destitute of any genuine company. Unlike other character who has a defined goalpost that would eventually satiate them , Patrick has none, no one really loves him, he has no backstory, just excess and superfluous consumerism that will ultimately never fulfill him.

In the end he suffers no repercussions from his actions because he is invisible.

Feel free to disagree since this is just my subjective outlook.

Hello, my name is John C Hennessey and I am the author of the novel, The Forest For A Tree. I wanted to discuss with you the inner workings of the book. One of these things is the allusion in the novel. I used American Psycho as a movie where both my main characters compare each other to the villain protagonist, Patrick Bateman. The allusion continues with the antagonist, Adrian, doing band analysis of such bands as, Genesis and Tom Petty and the heartbreakers, in the vein of Patrick Bateman. I wanted to know what you guys think about that? And if you would consider reading it? It is available on Amazon.

So, in the movie American Psycho, is everything I see in the movie Patrick's imagination?

Craig McDermott is in a Home Depot commercial with David Beckham. Lucky bastard….;)

But this was a sick parody of some kind right? all these wall street exects in the 80s weren't this obsessed and materialistic right? They were so out of touch with reality and lived in a bubble it was crazy.

I recently read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and found the book very fascinating. Now I'm wondering if his other works are up to the same standard and if they're worth reading as well. Especially since Patrick Bateman also appears in The Rules of Attraction, which would make it even more interesting for me.

Has anyone else read other works by Bret Easton Ellis and can recommend them?

I only saw movie and was under impression that the message was that Patrick is actually kind of normal and has some consciousness comparing to people around him. Subconsciously ( or not some subconsciously ) he recognizes that his lifestyle and goals are shallow, self destructive and toxic and this creates a turmoil inside of him which triggers psychosis and delusions. This doesnt happen to people who surround him so he is kind of more 'moral' and more 'normal' comparing to them. Maybe this is obvious idea or maybe I've totally misunderstood the movie.

In the end, Patrick calls his friend and confesses his crimes, but he thinks it’s a joke because of who Patrick is, when Patrick says it wasn’t a joke he still doesn’t believe him since he doesn’t call the cops and Patrick gets away with it, it’s insane

I have watched it a bit late but in the scene where Arthur's watching the Murray Franklin show and acting it out as if he's there, the TV shows Justin Theroux (Timothy Bryce) as a guest and it's mentioned he's doing a movie called American Playboy 😆 instantly recognised him