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Journey through 80's Nihilism...


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If nineteenth-century satirist Jonathan Swift ("Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal" ) had written a novel about New York yuppies in the late 1980s, it might have looked something like American Psycho .
I refer not to the ultra-violent novel by Bret Easton Ellis but the film adaptation directed by Mary Harron ("I Shot Andy Warhol" ) starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, the twenty-seven year old Harvard graduate who stands as a metaphor for the glossy emptiness of the "me decade ."

The public outrage caused Simon and Schuster publishing to drop the book (while allowing Ellis to keep his considerable advance) which was then picked up by Vintage and eventually released.. The book has been revered and reviled by critics and the masses alike most of whom fail to realize that the novel is little more than a cleverly conceived satire.. And now, nine years after its initial publication, Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) has brought the book to the big screen?with surprisingly good results.....

Christian Bale (Swing Kids, A Midsummer Night's Dream ) stars as Patrick Bateman, the Jekyll and Hyde "hero " of the film.
Bateman is an intriguing character literally a personification of the banality of evil -- moving through life as little more than an empty shell at the mercy of his murderous impulses.
For Bateman, life is little more than an endless stream of elaborate gourmet dinners at fancy restaurants , designer clothes , the quest to acquire the perfect business card , rough sex , and violent murder not particularly in that order.
Bateman is the living embodiment of the mid-80's Wall Street culture'a young, disaffected urbanite who is driven to excess because its ultimately the only way he feels anything.
He's shallow, self-centered, and incredibly full of himself (as witnessed through the hilarious dissertations that he gives on 80's pop music acts like Whitney Houston, Genesis, and Huey Lewis ), and probably not too unlike corporate raider Michael Milken when he was that age.

【Christian Bale】American Psycho【Chlok Sevigny】
Lifestyles of the Rich & Sane-less...
"American Psycho " is probably one of the strangest films I have ever seen.
It is a fascinating film with an intriguing, if not bizarre lead character.
It is certainly an interesting character study of a man with more oddities than any one person on the face of the earth.

Anyone who has read the book knows that as the story with no apparent plot progresses, Patrick gets into some trouble with the local law enforcement.. The magnitude of the situation allows him to make up his mind that he will come clean about all he has done.. Of coures, no one believes him.. That there is no resolution to the story should come as no real surprise as there was no real story to be resolved.. The film raises the same questions the book did....

Did Patrick do all these things for real or just in his mind ?
I would like to also mention one spot where the film actually makes a better joke than the book.
Throughout the novel Patrick is referred to by a variety of names.
The goof here is that all Wall Street yuppies look alike.
The message is never completely clear in the book, but the last scene of the film does a fantastic job of bringing the idea to the forefront.
As Patrick spans the room all he can see is what is effectively the same face and suit of every single guy in the room.
Kudos to Harron for the brilliant little bit of cinematography.

Christian Bale reminds me very much of Tom Cruise, a favorite of mine, and now Christian will be too.
They are both handsome and good actors.
As far as the plot goes, it probably is not that far from the truth, although exaggerated when it comes to the jealousy over the business cards, but there are probably many such killings that are done by frustrated stock traders when they've just seen their twenty million turn into ten million over night.

The call girl murders are again not an unusual thing in Manhattan, and the police are not eager to roust the boys on Wall Street over these molls.
Most of the homeless murders are not even investigated, let alone solved.
Just written off to natural causes.
As for the call girl murders, they're usually written off to angry drug dealers and organized crime revenge killings.

"American Psycho" is by no means a Gr8 movie.
The lack of plot is evident and causes the film to drag a bit at times.
Some of the jokes are a bit too over the top and Bale overacts in several instances.
However, it is one of the better adaptations from a novel I've seen in the last few years and is maybe the best satire since "Wag the Dog ."
The high level of violence that Harron does leave in the film will keep a good many viewers away , as will the at times graphic sexual content of the film.
That said, I would most definitely recommend this flick to any lover of a different kind of comedy.

Ultimately, American Psycho is a very pleasant surprise'a film adaptation of a book I that manages to capture most of the novel's mood and feel.
I went into this one expecting the worst and was rewarded with a fairly faithful adaptation that entertained me for over an hour and a half.
People who hated the novel will most likely despise the movie too, but if you're a fan of gore films, scathing black comedy, or Bret Easton Ellis' work then American Psycho is well worth checking out.

As you may see from my blog for this movie, you can tell that I didn't dislike this movie much.
I couldn't find something significantly wrong with it.
I didn't even want to see this movie; I thought that the trailer didn't make this movie look interesting or deep.
I was wrong and now Im here to say that this movie is like none you have ever seen.


A Movie about a Schizophrenic Psycho makes such a Great Movie.
If You are Squeamish, Beware !!!!!