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American Psycho review
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American Psycho review
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You can always look thinner
Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago on 8 October 2022 07:36Nothing is enough. Money, sex, social stature, there is always someone else who has more and everyone else expect from you to try harder for even more.
This movie is about eliminating competition the easy way. By killing your opponents. By eating your sexual partners. By destroying everyone around you.
'American Psycho' retains the balance between this psychotic state, a chilling thriller and a very funny movie.
The scenes that show Patrick playing music for his guests are absolutely hilarious, as he comments very seriously on records by artists such as Whitney Houston, Phil Collins and Huey Lewis & the News. The funny thing is that he chooses the most commercial or sold out records of these artists, to explain how much better they are compared to their previous, more artistic work. Another message of the state of the receivers of commercial art.
You can analyze 'American Psycho' for hours. It can be perceived both as a deep and a fun movie. Even if you don't like the story, you will love Christian Bale's excellent performance.
Enjoy.
10/10
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A very good movie
Posted : 7 years, 4 months ago on 13 December 2016 01:34I already saw this movie (in fact, I even saw it in the movie theatre when it was released) but since it was ages ago, I was really eager to check it out again. Well, after all these years, the damned thing was still pretty awesome, thatās for sure. First of all, even though Christian Bale had been an actor for already more than 10 years, it was with this movie that he finally got his breakthrough. Seriously, the guy was just terrific in this movie and it is difficult to imagine someone else playing this role. Furthermore, I really loved this story. Indeed, I usually have a hard time to really care about movies dealing with serial-killers but this one was just quite spellbinding to behold. Basically, Patrick Bateman was such a complex and fascinating character. Indeed, he is good-looking, rich but also so f*cked-up, completely shallow and, yet, you canāt help feeling sorry for the guy because he seems to feel so miserable. In fact, everyone around him seems to be just as depraved as he is so, as a result, you get a very dark and nihilistic vision of our world. The great thing is that, at the end, you donāt know for sure what Patrick Bateman did or didnāt do. Probably most of it didnāt happen but you donāt know for sure and it made the whole thing even more fascinating. Eventually, I enjoyed this movie so much that I ended up reading the book as well which was even darker and twisted than the movie. In fact, it is hands down one of the best books I have read, but even if this movie was maybe not better than the book, it was still a fine adaptation though. Anyway, to conclude, this movie is a cult-classic and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.
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American Psycho review
Posted : 7 years, 5 months ago on 5 November 2016 01:18Ademas mezcla todo eso con un humor negro inteligente y una buena sƔtira,recomendado para los fans mƔs afƩrrimos del gƩnero.
PUNTUACIĆN:8,5 de 10
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American Psycho
Posted : 9 years, 3 months ago on 2 January 2015 09:23If one must think of it in a way that gives a concrete answer, I would say that at least one of the murders in this story is true, and the rest is the product of his feverish imagination and quickly disintegrating psyche. Thereās plenty of ammunition for both camps to explore whether or not what the film shows us is really happening or not, but thatās not an interesting point of debate. A film like American Psycho gives us a rich and disturbing text, then asks us why we think what we do as we walk away from it. An argument over āyesā or ānoā should be the beginning of the discussion, not the end point.
The first time I viewed the film, at the far too young age of thirteen, I didnāt know what the hell I had just watched. I only knew that what I watched had taken place in the very dark, scary mind of an incredibly attractive man. Returning to it, I expected for that original thought to be reinforced. I guess in a way, it was, but in a deeper way, I discovered that I didnāt care much whether or not he really did it. Bateman believes that he has entirely committed these acts, spoken about them, cried for help, and been met with gross indifference. American Psycho was oddly prescient in detailing an American landscape in which the very wealthy get off freely by arguing that theyāre too affluent for jail time. Hell, half the time they donāt even have to be rich, they just have to be white.
White privilege, particularly the virulently hyper-masculine, extremely wealthy, heterosexual kind, is taken to task in a world where no one can distinguish each other from the next person, and business cards are treated like a dick measuring contest. This doesnāt even begin to cover the hilarity that ensues from trying to get restaurants to reserve you a table, something which is treated with a seriousness and severity that it approaches religious fundamentalism in its single-minded oppressiveness.
And walking us through this satirical world is Christian Baleās unbelievably good work as Bateman. When playing serial killers or highly unlikeable people, most actors will try to find a way to give them at least one sympathetic moment. Bette Davisā final scene in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane springs to mind. So does how endearingly nervous and sweet Norman Bates is upon first blush in Psycho. None of that is existent here in Baleās work. Any moments of kindness or self-reflection feel like errors in his coding. Bale and the film-makers see Bateman clearly, and the type of men he symbolizes, and they hate him, skewer and satirize him endlessly. And perhaps it required a female director, Mary Harron here, to see clearly such a terrible man and the fragility of the entitled male ego and take it to task, over and over again.
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American Psycho review
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American Psycho review
Posted : 11 years, 3 months ago on 3 January 2013 06:47All around I was very disappointed, it wasn't as good as I thought it'd be, that's all.
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American Psycho review
Posted : 11 years, 3 months ago on 2 January 2013 01:570 comments, Reply to this entry
A shadow of what it should have been
Posted : 11 years, 6 months ago on 17 October 2012 01:25Having read a fair amount of literature from respected criminologists and criminal psychiatrists (which confusingly holds that psychopathy might be linked to a disconnect/dysfunction in the amygdala as frequently as it cites environmental influences) the one thing they all agree on is that high-functioning psychopaths are often charming, engaging and highly intelligent.
Yet Bateman's character is as smug and charmless as can be imagined, to the point of cartoonishness. The film therefore misses out on the one element that would introduce a genuinely spine-tingling response; that the charming, friendly, talkative, interesting and apparently helpful man smiling at you across the table is mentally visualising how best to dismember you once he gets you home.
Given that Silence of the Lambs preceded this film by a wide margin and showed us how a real pure psychopath would behave there really is no excuse. To be fair, they got his profession right: alongside Politics, Law-enforcement and Special Forces, the density of psychopaths in the financial sector is much higher than anywhere else in society. (This is not a criticism, just a fact that positions of power/control/authority is naturally where psychopaths congregate).
It wouldn't have been rocket science to portray Bateman correctly and hint at his darkness in separate, less pleasant, vignettes. Unfortunately the Bateman we see is aggressively psychotic in broad daylight and to anyone who sits "below" him on the socio-economic scale. His lack of interaction with any kind of employer to whom he must show at least a modicum of manners skips the chance to demonstrate the truly self-serving and ruthless nature of this kind of creature. In the wild, such a man would not remain undetected and at liberty for long.
The film is entertaining enough I suppose on a frenzied-bout-of-violence level but to anyone who has done a bit of reading on the topic it's mostly two-dimensional and barely believable.
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