American Psycho
- Started
- Last post
- 33 Responses
- jevad
Great book - good film. I thought Bale was perfect.
But please..please somebody explain it to me. Was he really Bateman and people were forgetting who he was? Or was he pretending?
- arthur0
Bateman or Batman?
- Point50
not sure really... but what I do know is that porno + pushups are a regular routine of mine now.
I've gained 2 inches all around
:|
- jevad0
HAHAHHAHAHA
- cosmo0
Great book - good film. I thought Bale was perfect.
But please..please somebody explain it to me. Was he really Bateman and people were forgetting who he was? Or was he pretending?
jevad
(Sep 11 07, 09:13)"TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!"
I don't think it was meant to be clear. It could swing either way.
Great movie though.
- dopepope0
I have to say upon finishing the book I did not feel there was no Bateman, or that he never really killed anyone, but at the end of the movie I sure as hell did consider that, and that the movie made me see the book in a way I hadn't thought of.
- Nairn0
My Mum lent me that book when I was a still-green 17 year old - I was seriously wondering "wtf, Mum?" when I came to that skull-fuck sequence.
If I remember rightly, the book has a much vaguer denouement than the movie - and if you've read any of his other books, you'll appreciate how he lets his protagonists exist in fucked-up, amoral universes, so I'd lead towards it being real - but such a decidedly unreal reality that none around can credit him for it. Or maybe not, as I said - it's 13 years since I read the damned thing.
- jevad0
None of you are being very much help at all!
I need solid, concrete answers pls. This has plagued me for years.
- Nairn0
You're becoming ever the American, Jevad...
;)
- spendogg0
all I know is that may fav part is when he starts steaming about the guy who had a better font and paper for his biz card.
- cosmo0
What happened to all the bodies in his closet? The lady cleaned it up and didn't even notice it. It could be possible that there were no bodies in the first place. Or the lady cleaned it up and didn't really care.
hmmmm...there are no concrete answers.
- JSK0
no
everything happened in his mind
at the end of the movie, when he makes that desperate call, he gets in touch with reality
much debatable but thats what i saw
much like vanilla sky, even though the director didnt intentionally make the movie like in that dream like fashion, the cues and clues leads to thinking that everything happened in his mind
- Rand0
he had lost his memory and it turned out the whole thing was in reverse
- JSK0
this is not comparable to say Mulholand Drive, but still puzzling.
- bliznutty0
psycho not as in killing everyone.
psycho as in thinking he's killing everyone.
- mrdobolina0
"don't just look at it, Eat it!"
- flavorful0
"don't just stare at it, Eat it!"
mrdobolina
(Sep 11 07, 09:42)
- mrdobolina0
hahahhahaa
- waynepixel0
The biz card moment, as I like to call it, was to funny.
- bauts1060
If you go back and read the book again, you'll notice that at the beginning...he's obsessively describing what each person he sees is wearing, right down to the color and designer and there's pretty much no gore until well into the story. However by the end, he is simply describing people as "wearing something brown" and the descriptions of gore are as detailed as the clothing descriptions at the beginning of the story. I think the book is about excess and obsession, and the extent to which it becomes real and takes over your life. There were no murders, they were part of his imagination. Especially considering the fact that he literally has a gun battle rife with explosions and death with the police and yet nothing happens to him and you never hear about it again, these were things he conjured up in his head.
- capsize0
its like this