![]() ![]() His targets move with increasing desperation from peers ( Jared Leto’s Paul Allen gets brutally axed in the film’s most iconic sequence) to those objectively below his social status (prostitutes and homeless people) - only one person he intends on killing ( Chloë Sevigny) escapes his wrath in a rare, inadvertent eruption of mercy, of admission to purity existing within a human. Bateman’s only course of action in an inherently pointless world? Causing chaos and violence in the form of abrupt killings. To paraphrase the man himself, he simply is not there. From his lavish skin care regimen to his robotically cheerful analyses of pop music, Bateman wears humanity like a flimsy slip tearing at the seams. Patrick Bateman (Bale) exists in a world of superficial, disposable, utterly useless masks. ![]() American Psycho plows through the hornet's nest of “1980s American class warfare and rich assholery” from the vantage point of, well, the rich assholes - and while the movie possesses little empathy for said assholes, it cannily dissects the shit out of them. How can such a nihilistic film be so friggin’ entertaining? American Psycho, the queasy 2000 horror-satire from director Mary Harron and star Christian Bale, continues to successfully punctuate its pervasive sense of pitch-black humor with shocking disruptions of surreal violence upon contemporary viewing. Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner, Reese Witherspoon ![]()
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