American Psycho
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- emokid0
he was bateman and did kill all those people. the underlying theme was greed and selfishness. everyone was so obsessed with their own lives that they were willing to ignore everything bateman was doing.
starting from the guy who sees bateman drag a dead body with the trail of blood and instead he asks where bateman got that wonderful bag from.
the woman who owned the apartment got rid of the bodies so she could sell the apartment without any problems. the lawyer admits to seeing paul allen in london because he just wanted to be associated with paul allen.
there were clues through out about how no one really paid attention to what bateman had to say. he says he is into murders and executions and the woman at the bar assumes he said mergers and acquisitions. while talking to his fiance, bateman says he has a need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale and she overlooks that part as well.
right in the beginning bateman says he feels as though he simply doesn't exist. i interpreted that as living in a materialistic world where people are too self obsessed (and high) to acknowledge some one else's existence. it was a story about greed making people blind to the most obvious of things, however, it is all still open to interpretation.
as you can tell, i've watched the movie numerous times.