Batz Kage Wrote:I also got around to buying a copy of American Psycho (also starring Bale). I had heard of how grusome the book was & that the movie itself was a watered down masterpiece. It sounded quite interesting, but in the end fell to very short. I've heard people argue about the ending to the film, and they've said that you must read the book to fully comprehend it, but I disagree. I understand what was happening, or I believe that I do because this movie tries so hard to be like every other great movie I've enjoyed. It tries to make you think about the results & what's happened, but the direction was horrible. First of all there was no character development, no real background information.
We're excepted to believe all of the history based off maybe 2 statements made by Batemen. The greatest piece of development is "I usaed to kill people at night, now I want to kill them during the daylight hours." That statement alone would explain the ending to the film.
The point you and 99.9% of other people are missing is that American Psycho isn't about a murderer, or one guy mental illness, or whatever! Hell Patrick Bateman isn't even the main character!!
The film is about the 1980's nothing more, the fact that bateman murders people is about as important as if he was a baker! Where in a more conventional movie the backdrop and setting would be unimportant, American Psycho reverses that and makes the setting and period the main character, but tries to mislead you through shock!
The fact that people including Bateman were so self important (worrying who's business card is better, or who's got the nicest apartment) makes all of the people in the film cold enough to do what it protrays Bateman doing, infact by them going out and spending and not helping other people (Bateman included by the end) this is exactly what they're doing albeit in a more round about way! (I mean where can Bateman go at the end, he dosen't exsist, he's just another power tie, he may aswell be dead! And it was his "friends" that killed him!!)
Anyone who sits and debates whether Bateman killed anyone at all, or even if he was infact Patrick Bateman is missing the point entirely... I personally tihnk it's a fantastic film, if flawed in comparison to the book...
Krooner