![]() ![]() My lone criticism of the film stems from its need to try and stick closely to the events of the novel while also finding a sense of finality to the whole business. It's not an easy source novel to plug from. Given the text it was spawned from, I have to fully tip my hat to Mary Harron for even having the gumption to try and tackle an adaptation of the book, let alone make a successful film. If anything it may even have some more teeth if you're at all interested in dissecting modern cultural cupidity. While many of the references may be culturally dated, the film's satire is just as biting as it ever was. I'm glad to see that worry was for nothing. I hadn't seen the film all the way through in almost 14 years and I was worried that the film had passed its expiration date. As I'm closer to 40 than I was when the film first hit theaters, I have an ever-growing appreciation for its biting cultural satire, hyper-violence, and its sadistically dark sense of humor. ![]() In the same way Beetlejuice watches The Exorcist, American Psycho just keeps getting funnier every time I see it. It's only as the years moved on and I saw people I knew drift towards that sort of material-centric life where the places you ate, drank, and the labels you wore once then threw out were most important that I started to actually get this film. Even though I was a child of the 80s, I didn't live anywhere near that side of it. While funny and violent, a lot of the satire flew right past me. I dutifully stood in line opening night, plunked down my hard-earned cash from my part-time job, and sat in a darkened theater expecting to be amazed. It was a big movie of the winter season courting any amount of controversy a movie based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel could for its extreme amount of violent content and treatment of women. When Patrick isn't isn't returning his tapes or tending to his rigorous daily self-care routine, he's torturing and murdering women in increasingly violent and sadistic ways… and no one seems to notice.Īmerican Psycho hit theaters right as my high school career was coming to a close. When they're done running up huge tabs at the trendiest restaurants, they're doing lines at the hippest nightclubs in New York. He dines daily with his friends Bryce (Justin Theroux), McDermott (Josh Lucas), and Luis (Matt Ross). Listens to the "it" bands like Huey Lewis and the News and has an affinity for Phil Collins. All handsome, rich, successful 27-year-old Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) wants to do is fit in. ![]()
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