I've never really understood this ending. Did he make all the killings? Some say he did, but people in the 80s were so stupid and distracted with superficial matters that they didn't notice the killings.
@Mazmorrero2 It is the latter. Nobody notices any of the disappearances, either. Notice how in the film they all get confused with each other - nobody knows who each other is (i.e. Paul thinking Patrick is Marcus etc.). When somebody who is exactly the same as 5 other people goes missing, they won't notice.
@FurShurr1316 I wouldn't call it a super fail...uh wait actually yeah, my memory just kicked in and I recalled Pat Bateman getting killed by a little girl, then her growing up to be Mila Kunis who shows us that being type cast can sometimes be a good thing.
the whole point of the story is that Patrick doesn't know what is real or not real, He thinks Price has a smug on his forehead but thinks he might be the only one who sees it, he isn't sure if he killed the cab driver Solly but thinks he probably did and many others but he can't be sure, he thinks he is hallucinating seeing all the midget elves at Evelyn's birthday; there's just many examples in the book he admits he doesn't know if it is real or not; So your not really gonna know either.
Hmm, if being a Solipsist is part of being or becoming a Psychopath that's a bit scary to me because solipsism isn't as absurd or easily refuted as many might think.
There's at least two interpretations of he story. One is that Patrick is fantasizing the murders as escapism, but I prefer the other one: he did commit all the murders in some way, and his surroundings simply perfectly accommodate a sociopath. No one in the story can recognize anyone else for certain. Even Bateman points out in the book "Even though I'm more handsome than McDermott, we both look pretty much the same." It doesn't matter who he killed because like he said, there is no catharsis.
I have just completed reading American Psycho and towards the end Patrick's mind has deteriorated... a lot. I just would like to hear you folks here on the tube's opinions on whether or not Patrick really did commit those murders and your reaons why or why not.
My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis.
That's the point, everyone looks the same and has the same job, constantly mistaking people's identities, Patrick confesses his insanity to random people, but they either think he said something else or he's joking. The yup lifestyle made everyone blind but Patrick. Hell even the real estate lady covers up the apartment full of bodies because she would rather keep the value for the property.
you can find this part on Shining's song "The Claws OF Perdition" version 2...a black song...if you know what i mean...there's no escape foe this world...
You guys gotta remember here, Bateman's likely to be insane, delusional, and has definitely hallucinated. I doubt the ATM asked him to feed him a stray cat, so the possibility that he learned that Paul took a trip to London combined with his hate for him, creating the false memory of killing him. And maybe Allen did run off unannounced, so there was investigation, and maybe he liked London so much he sold his apartment.
But that's just supposition, it can be taken any way you want.
I noticed Bateman tends to contradict himself often. He claims to have no feelings, but often freaks out and even describes intense feelings of anger or distress in his monologues. As for catharsis, wasn't his confession to the lawyer exactly that?
I believe he has multiple personality disorder. Bateman often describes the need to fit in to the yuppie culture. Perhaps he wants to fit in to the serial killer mentality as well, but can't physically so he visualizes the murders in his mind.
Bateman is a psychopath plain and simple. and he knows at the end of the movie that because his confession has "meant nothing" his pain will go on because he will continue to kill because no one takes him seriously. Ellis, who wrote the book, was making fun of a generation and a culture that no one took seriously. not even themselves, and therefore the scary thing is no one take Bateman seriously and so it is a cycle with him
Yes but you can't deny the hints throughout the movie that all the murders were visualized. Towards the movie he even begins to doubt the reality of it, like when he looks at his gun in disbelief after blowing up the cop car, or when he is surprised he got away with his killing spree at the end.
Maybe his confession to the lawyer couldn've been a catharsis if he actually killed anyone (and most importantly Paul Allen), because in this case he could've felt a relief as the punishment would ensue and that would unload from the load he is carrying. Without that, he finds himself at the very same stage as he was before imaginary assassination of Paul - in the world where he is judging and being judged by a font on his business card and ability to reserve a table at Dorsey. Living hell.
"but even after admitting this, there is no catharsis"
catharsis meaning elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness
"my punishment continues to elude me, & I gained no deeper knowledge of myself
So to me he realizes that all before didn't actually happen but he did believe it happened before this so he is capable of doing it and now he knows it's still there and he will continue to do those things and now it will actually be real.
I think I disagree. I'd say it's a little more ambiguous than that. I think maybe it doesn't matter whether he did or didn't, it's about why he thinks he did and what he discovers he's capable of.
but what I think happens is that Bateman did actually kill the man he thought was Paul Allen. But Paul Allen was dealing with the same issues that Bateman was. Meaning the man Bateman killed was someone else that everyone thought (including Bateman) was Allen, just as they thought Bateman was Allen too. So the real Allen is still alive somewhere, and Bateman killed someone else, whose name we will never know.
Good point. I didn't get that in depth with this movie I've only seen it like 1 time full stop but it is kind of complicated. Maybe he did actually kill who he thought was allen they don't really make it clear I guess you're supposed to make your own conclusion? maybe I'll have to watch it again, good movie though ^^
No, he definitely killed Paul Allen. It was everyone else that mistook people for Paul Allen. If he killed someone other than Allen, he would have shown up for work the next day.
Yeah the detective wouldn't have investigated about Paul Allen's death cos he wouldn't be dead somehow so maybe this whole movie isn't reality and maybe Bateman is in some institution thinking about all of this
That's that so great about this movie, most people can really relate to Patrick Bateman. Everyone have thoughts like this once in a while. But as far as they don't commit a crime they are just a regular person. After all "Inside doesn't matter".
God I can't get enough of this film. I turn 18 in a few days and so can finally get the book, although my parents ain't that keen. Haha, I can't wait.
it's meant to be sarcastic dark and truthful, the humor in it should come with a guilt because while something like this could happen where we grow hungrier and needier it will produce apathetic and wreckless people.
Pastrami is a white guy from Sweden. I think he was being sarcastic... Don't bite everytime you see a wurm, because sometimes there's a fisherman attached to it... (i make no sense, i know :D).
djskuld (and others) Remember to read the book if you want to hear the whole story. Much more detail, anger, and murders. It also tells you that he consumes Halcion, Xanax, Valium, J&B and a plenty of coke.
Also...while we might never know what is mental condition was or what was in the pill bottle he kept eating... But I would say a nice case of Dementia
No, Haron hated the idea of leonardo as bateman and knew Bale was perfect for the role so she left the project. Oliver stone took over but things never progressed. therefore dicaprio stared in the beach instead...
Ummm no. Dicaprio turned it down. Bale is an average actor at best. Dicaprio is one of the best actors in the industry today. Working with Martin Scorsese on 4 pictures is living proof. @Ibanezguy2007
@DanEarley1987 Christian Bale is just as great as Leo in alot of ways. He's far more versatile, and has stronger range as an actor. If Leo's one of the best, then so is Bale.
And Bale's performance in "American Psycho" is better then most of Leo's performances.
Agreed that Bale has some good performances...I loved him in the Machinist...but Leo's movies rely more on his acting. Just some in mind: The Aviator, Blood Diamond (the accent), and even when he was younger as Arnie Grape. Bale's movies have great plot and direction (Batman Series), and it makes him looks that much better.
@DanEarley1987 Bale's movies also rely on his acting. You're argument doesn't make any real sense here. If it wasn't for Bale's acting, "American Psycho" and "The Machinist" would not get much praise at all. And alot of the praise for "Batman Begins", was for Bale's performance.
"Blood Diamond" sucked, and Leo's performance wasn't great enough to get an oscar nod. He was alot better in the "Departed."
To say Blood Diamond sucked is one of the most ignorant things I think I've heard anyone say. Yeah, It didn't get him an Academy Award, but he was RECOGNIZED (the nomination). Bale is a good Bruce Wayne, but his voice as Batman is terrible. You name me one bad Leo performance. And please be honest. He's one of the best, and hardest working actors in movies today. And if anything, the "praise" you say Bale got for his performance in "American Psycho" and "The Machinist"@Transformers217
got him a "cult" following...none of those movies were commercial successes. Leo will be around longer than the "overrated" Christian Bale. @Transformers217
@DanEarley1987 Leo also started off with a cult following, and gained success because of his pretty boy looks. Unlike Bale, people completely ignored Leo's talent as an actor when teenage girls started to go insane over him. And for some odd reason, some people still can't forgive him for "Titanic." Which actually boggles my mind.
But being successful, doesn't make you talented. It's pretty obvious that Bale's best performances, are better then most of Leo's performances.
@DanEarley1987 "Blood" Diamond" was terrible. The directing was bland and tediouse, the cinematography was nothing special, and the characterization was both easy, and predictable. And the love story was very cheesy, and contradicted the intense tone that the film attempted to have.
Bale is a great Bruce Wayne, and his voice for Batman is not only great at times, but fits the character perfectly. Sure, it's kinda forced at times, but that's exactly how Batman is suppose to sound.
@DanEarley1987 Leo's performances in "Beach", and "Man in the Iron Mask" were mediocre. He also had some bad moments in "Gangs of New York", and missed a couple notes in "Catch Me If you Can."
Like I said before: If Martin Scorsese picks you as De Niro's successor, you must be doing something right. Not to mention the director's he has worked with (Cameron, Speilberg, Mendes, and Scorsese). Did I mention he gets a little recognition from the Academy?@Transformers217
@DanEarley1987 Scorsese picked Leo, because he needed to have some commercial successes, and an Oscar. I'm not saying that Leo hasn't become a great actor within the last 5 or 6 years, he's actually getting better with age. But to say that he's better then Bale, when Bale's performance in "American Psycho" trumps most of Leo's performances, is simply asinine.
And the Academy is great, but their still a flawed system, that also goes for popularity, rather then quality.
@Ibanezguy2007 Actually DiCaprio backed out because someone from his management team mentioned how his main audience was younger women because of Titanic and this wouldn't have likely been a good role for him.
@Ibanezguy2007 Wrong... Leo would have gotten the part but his agent told him he didn't want to lose his image that young people had of him. Good try though!
Of course he did. He got away with everything because of what he does and where he is at. His colleagues and peers don't even know the difference between one person and another at their prestigious level because they are all so consumed in themselves. As long as they get the material possessions and the reservations at the fancy restaurants, they couldn't care less about anyone else.
Yes, but in the same scene where the Lawyer says this, he even mistakes Bateman, who he is talking to, for someone else.
There is also another scene, where someone thinks he had dinner with Paul Allan in London, but the Detective found out that it was also just a confusion.
Actually dschultz the killings were in his mind. He was crazy and thought he killed people when he wasn't. That was the twist of the movie. It was all in his mind. Thus being a American Psycho.
The idea is that both ways are possible, just like in the book.
On the one hand he is a crazy lunatic, takes too many drugs und is just imagining the killings to cope with his hate und inner emptyness.
On the other hand, if he'd did it hand he couldn't get caught, because in the world he lives in, nobody listens to anybody and everybody would be mistaken all the time.
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DZeynali 3 months ago
Best living actor.
TheHighKingFingolfin 3 months ago
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TheAndiePerson 5 months ago
i have to return some videotapes.
apxeli 5 months ago
hey look its christian bales auto biography
johnny13r 5 months ago
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soccerprog226 8 months ago 14
This entire movie was actually a hallucination that Bruce Wayne had after inhaling some of Scarecrow's hallucinogen.
PrototypeFT 9 months ago 13
@PrototypeFT LOL hahaha
BrotherGoons 9 months ago
THIS SHOULD OF BEEN THE LAST SCENE IN THE DARK KNIGHT
LOL
tninbredretard 10 months ago 4
@tninbredretard Or the last scene in the Terminator: Salvation movie he was in lol
edmondbrooks 10 months ago
greesy face.
readeronly1 11 months ago
where is the FULL movie please?!?!?!?
xhemexx 11 months ago
@xhemexx On a DVD in a store or shop somewhere, on a shelf. Buy it.
MichaelHThe2nd 11 months ago
His eyes look like different colors at the end. I don't know if that's supposed to have any sybolic significance.
BlackOasis21 1 year ago
I've never really understood this ending. Did he make all the killings? Some say he did, but people in the 80s were so stupid and distracted with superficial matters that they didn't notice the killings.
Mazmorrero2 1 year ago
@Mazmorrero2 it doesn't really matter
kraskata2012 11 months ago
@Mazmorrero2 It is the latter. Nobody notices any of the disappearances, either. Notice how in the film they all get confused with each other - nobody knows who each other is (i.e. Paul thinking Patrick is Marcus etc.). When somebody who is exactly the same as 5 other people goes missing, they won't notice.
MichaelHThe2nd 11 months ago
@MichaelHThe2nd Alright, I guess I'll reason the movie ending this way since I guess it's the most simple way.
Mazmorrero2 11 months ago
Name of song?
JohnEdwardGammel 1 year ago
hahah i loook like batemen
freshprincejordan 1 year ago
Lol the guy on the left at 0:48 looks like Taylor Lautner
TheDivineone1000 1 year ago
american psycho 2= SUPER FAIL!!
FurShurr1316 1 year ago 9
@FurShurr1316 I wouldn't call it a super fail...uh wait actually yeah, my memory just kicked in and I recalled Pat Bateman getting killed by a little girl, then her growing up to be Mila Kunis who shows us that being type cast can sometimes be a good thing.
19bond92 1 year ago
"Im just a happy camper, ROCKIN AND A ROLLIN!"
yashespatel 1 year ago 4
Genius.
callierosexo 1 year ago
This is what my girlfriend told me when she broke up with me. :(
smogwhy 1 year ago 3
I remember this movie being lined up with leo and oliver stone directing but that fell through for the better.
I think Leo's always been talented (cite Gilbert Grape) but I don't his talent really matured until Martin Scorcese got ahold of him (cite Aviator)
Christian Bale has always had that intensity which works for him in most projects, but also causes him to scream at crewmembers....
travishsieh 1 year ago 3
Where can i find the clip where she finds the notebook of him?
Citrus3000 1 year ago
the whole point of the story is that Patrick doesn't know what is real or not real, He thinks Price has a smug on his forehead but thinks he might be the only one who sees it, he isn't sure if he killed the cab driver Solly but thinks he probably did and many others but he can't be sure, he thinks he is hallucinating seeing all the midget elves at Evelyn's birthday; there's just many examples in the book he admits he doesn't know if it is real or not; So your not really gonna know either.
acwann118 1 year ago 2
@acwann118
Hmm, if being a Solipsist is part of being or becoming a Psychopath that's a bit scary to me because solipsism isn't as absurd or easily refuted as many might think.
GreyZone7 1 year ago
There's at least two interpretations of he story. One is that Patrick is fantasizing the murders as escapism, but I prefer the other one: he did commit all the murders in some way, and his surroundings simply perfectly accommodate a sociopath. No one in the story can recognize anyone else for certain. Even Bateman points out in the book "Even though I'm more handsome than McDermott, we both look pretty much the same." It doesn't matter who he killed because like he said, there is no catharsis.
eatenbyrobots 1 year ago
Patrick is a schizophrenic.
He hallucinated all the murders that's why Owen is still alive and why the bodies where never in the closet.
Stutter210 2 years ago
I have just completed reading American Psycho and towards the end Patrick's mind has deteriorated... a lot. I just would like to hear you folks here on the tube's opinions on whether or not Patrick really did commit those murders and your reaons why or why not.
Thanks!!!
breez098 2 years ago
My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis.
Could be my words...
ronstar80 2 years ago 3
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ronstar80 2 years ago
That's the point, everyone looks the same and has the same job, constantly mistaking people's identities, Patrick confesses his insanity to random people, but they either think he said something else or he's joking. The yup lifestyle made everyone blind but Patrick. Hell even the real estate lady covers up the apartment full of bodies because she would rather keep the value for the property.
arsenal1032 2 years ago 3
you can find this part on Shining's song "The Claws OF Perdition" version 2...a black song...if you know what i mean...there's no escape foe this world...
ThornsOfDarkness 2 years ago
I like watching this over and over.
naileddeadjesse 2 years ago 2
Christian Bale's best performance so far? I think so.
rockabillydeath 2 years ago 42
Compared to The Machinist? I don't know...
richiebabe24 2 years ago
compared to the machinist? never. gives one hell of a competition but never triumphs over it.
somberlight 2 years ago 3
@rockabillydeath He wasn't even performing, this is what he does on any given day.
Jizunedizog 11 months ago
@Neveraidan > Gezz.. people still don't understand what the movie is about and what's happning in it.. B;AH!
PastramiStaven 2 years ago
This is not an exit.
jayboy2kay7 2 years ago 53
@jayboy2kay7 > what do you mean? What he says is so true. I'm no racist.. I hate everyone :)
PastramiStaven 2 years ago
:S talking about?
jayboy2kay7 2 years ago
Cock sucker?
PastramiStaven 2 years ago
yeah, to bad the damn set people couldn't get a sign that was easier to read.
Sydpart2 2 years ago
"The future is that mountain"
machtrebel 2 years ago
Wow lmao. When I heard his thoughts, I remembered a Killwhitneydead song. thats epic :D
Falll3nForLif3 2 years ago
You guys gotta remember here, Bateman's likely to be insane, delusional, and has definitely hallucinated. I doubt the ATM asked him to feed him a stray cat, so the possibility that he learned that Paul took a trip to London combined with his hate for him, creating the false memory of killing him. And maybe Allen did run off unannounced, so there was investigation, and maybe he liked London so much he sold his apartment.
But that's just supposition, it can be taken any way you want.
kittie93 2 years ago 2
Man, he killed these people but at the end he's son confused that he begins tu hallucinate.
Most of the murders actually happened, Harron and Turner said so
damientpcp 2 years ago 2
I noticed Bateman tends to contradict himself often. He claims to have no feelings, but often freaks out and even describes intense feelings of anger or distress in his monologues. As for catharsis, wasn't his confession to the lawyer exactly that?
I believe he has multiple personality disorder. Bateman often describes the need to fit in to the yuppie culture. Perhaps he wants to fit in to the serial killer mentality as well, but can't physically so he visualizes the murders in his mind.
Otacon237 2 years ago 5
Bateman is a psychopath plain and simple. and he knows at the end of the movie that because his confession has "meant nothing" his pain will go on because he will continue to kill because no one takes him seriously. Ellis, who wrote the book, was making fun of a generation and a culture that no one took seriously. not even themselves, and therefore the scary thing is no one take Bateman seriously and so it is a cycle with him
vincentpricesnephew 2 years ago 5
Yes but you can't deny the hints throughout the movie that all the murders were visualized. Towards the movie he even begins to doubt the reality of it, like when he looks at his gun in disbelief after blowing up the cop car, or when he is surprised he got away with his killing spree at the end.
Otacon237 2 years ago 2
Maybe his confession to the lawyer couldn've been a catharsis if he actually killed anyone (and most importantly Paul Allen), because in this case he could've felt a relief as the punishment would ensue and that would unload from the load he is carrying. Without that, he finds himself at the very same stage as he was before imaginary assassination of Paul - in the world where he is judging and being judged by a font on his business card and ability to reserve a table at Dorsey. Living hell.
vantagepointmoon 2 years ago
haha omfg i didnt know children of bodom got that one quote @ 00:25 that they use in angels dont kill from this movie! :D
Xx6DeathofSeasons6xX 2 years ago
i love how everyone looks the same, suits, oilver peoples glasses, slick back hair, book is amazing
mikhailr13 2 years ago
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vincentpricesnephew 2 years ago
im a little confused about the ending...did he actually kill anyone? or was it in his head all along?
RobbieIsRob 2 years ago 2
All in his head.
"but even after admitting this, there is no catharsis"
catharsis meaning elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness
"my punishment continues to elude me, & I gained no deeper knowledge of myself
So to me he realizes that all before didn't actually happen but he did believe it happened before this so he is capable of doing it and now he knows it's still there and he will continue to do those things and now it will actually be real.
something like that..
OlderG0ds 2 years ago 2
cheers man, thats kinda what i suspected...great stuff
RobbieIsRob 2 years ago
I think I disagree. I'd say it's a little more ambiguous than that. I think maybe it doesn't matter whether he did or didn't, it's about why he thinks he did and what he discovers he's capable of.
rednut27 2 years ago
Thats an interesting idea OlderG0ds,
but what I think happens is that Bateman did actually kill the man he thought was Paul Allen. But Paul Allen was dealing with the same issues that Bateman was. Meaning the man Bateman killed was someone else that everyone thought (including Bateman) was Allen, just as they thought Bateman was Allen too. So the real Allen is still alive somewhere, and Bateman killed someone else, whose name we will never know.
Just check out the scene right before this.
blademaster10293 2 years ago
Good point. I didn't get that in depth with this movie I've only seen it like 1 time full stop but it is kind of complicated. Maybe he did actually kill who he thought was allen they don't really make it clear I guess you're supposed to make your own conclusion? maybe I'll have to watch it again, good movie though ^^
OlderG0ds 2 years ago
No, he definitely killed Paul Allen. It was everyone else that mistook people for Paul Allen. If he killed someone other than Allen, he would have shown up for work the next day.
DarkFilmDirector 2 years ago
Yeah the detective wouldn't have investigated about Paul Allen's death cos he wouldn't be dead somehow so maybe this whole movie isn't reality and maybe Bateman is in some institution thinking about all of this
Jorgenator1 2 years ago
i think like this on a regeular basis. i need to see sum1 b4 its too late
fredsta786 2 years ago
Batman is evil
KyoshoCrew 2 years ago 2
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black comedy YAY :D kill all you nigers kill them
DARTAN09 2 years ago
damn, i swear i feel like this myself at times :-S maybe im mad too!!
fredsta786 2 years ago 2
That's that so great about this movie, most people can really relate to Patrick Bateman. Everyone have thoughts like this once in a while. But as far as they don't commit a crime they are just a regular person. After all "Inside doesn't matter".
LTadas 2 years ago 6
God I can't get enough of this film. I turn 18 in a few days and so can finally get the book, although my parents ain't that keen. Haha, I can't wait.
wurthluc91 2 years ago
Wow I've never heard that one before.. to be old enough to buy a book xD
Hahnmaestro 2 years ago 3
...creepy
trojanstudent 2 years ago
Genius
janssie 2 years ago
it's meant to be sarcastic dark and truthful, the humor in it should come with a guilt because while something like this could happen where we grow hungrier and needier it will produce apathetic and wreckless people.
Astronaut03 2 years ago
is the movie a comedy beacause at some parts it can be funny
Tromo99 3 years ago
dark comedy?
admirilawesome1 2 years ago 6
Yes, it's black comedy.
CyberpunkChris 2 years ago 6
What the fuck.
There is no chance in hell, that this is intended to be that.
Cmon!?
R3D00d 2 years ago
dark comedy.
circulation211 2 years ago
black comedy? YOU RASIST BASTARD!
PastramiStaven 2 years ago
how is that racist
thats what its called
dubmywub 2 years ago
Pastrami is a white guy from Sweden. I think he was being sarcastic... Don't bite everytime you see a wurm, because sometimes there's a fisherman attached to it... (i make no sense, i know :D).
Troublesome2008 2 years ago
my brother wrote that comment
:P
dubmywub 2 years ago
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Fuck off nigger
barrab 2 years ago
lol im white nigga
dubmywub 2 years ago
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NIGGER
barrab 2 years ago
paki
dubmywub 2 years ago
this is a very ducking clever movie....makes ya think...and get inside the mind of a psycho haha
0watto250 3 years ago
anybody else notice that his eyes are two different colors at the very end shot? maybe hinting at his split personalities?
rumpeltiezerwash 3 years ago
I actually thought his left eye was just in a shadow, so it looked darker.
But you could be onto something there.
ImAManOfMyWord 3 years ago
yea it does kind of look like a shadow. If you watch the actual dvd in decent quality, it looks much more like one eye is hazel and the other blue.
rumpeltiezerwash 3 years ago
On the door behind him it says
"This is NOT an Exit"
rebelyell1983x 3 years ago 2
Just like the last words in the novel.
badeboom 2 years ago
theres a part of this quote on children of bodom's bodom beach terror x) and angels dont kill
blinderchains 3 years ago
And in "Claws of Perdition" by Shining
dumptruckhead37 2 years ago
this comment has meant nothing...lol
EYEMJR08 3 years ago 5
Another equally good movie about killing:
Mr. Brooks
Check it out, it is a great psychosocial analysis of a serial killer.
mycatisromeo 3 years ago
fucking awesome
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great movie, check out Mr. Brooks also!
mycatisromeo 3 years ago
djskuld (and others) Remember to read the book if you want to hear the whole story. Much more detail, anger, and murders. It also tells you that he consumes Halcion, Xanax, Valium, J&B and a plenty of coke.
"Did I mention I'm utterly insane?"
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i wud pick dis as my fav cuz hes not killing any1 no more and its the end.lolz
LTVBallG 3 years ago
A very good movie... noone could have played the part other then Bale... he does a great job
djskuld 3 years ago 3
Also...while we might never know what is mental condition was or what was in the pill bottle he kept eating... But I would say a nice case of Dementia
djskuld 3 years ago
yeh leonardo dicaprio was going to play it until last minute the director preferred Bale's audition...the right choice in my opinion!
Ibanezguy2007 3 years ago 37
No, Haron hated the idea of leonardo as bateman and knew Bale was perfect for the role so she left the project. Oliver stone took over but things never progressed. therefore dicaprio stared in the beach instead...
biz77 3 years ago
Ummm no. Dicaprio turned it down. Bale is an average actor at best. Dicaprio is one of the best actors in the industry today. Working with Martin Scorsese on 4 pictures is living proof. @Ibanezguy2007
DanEarley1987 1 year ago
@DanEarley1987 Christian Bale is just as great as Leo in alot of ways. He's far more versatile, and has stronger range as an actor. If Leo's one of the best, then so is Bale.
And Bale's performance in "American Psycho" is better then most of Leo's performances.
Transformers217 1 year ago
Agreed that Bale has some good performances...I loved him in the Machinist...but Leo's movies rely more on his acting. Just some in mind: The Aviator, Blood Diamond (the accent), and even when he was younger as Arnie Grape. Bale's movies have great plot and direction (Batman Series), and it makes him looks that much better.
DanEarley1987 1 year ago
@DanEarley1987 Bale's movies also rely on his acting. You're argument doesn't make any real sense here. If it wasn't for Bale's acting, "American Psycho" and "The Machinist" would not get much praise at all. And alot of the praise for "Batman Begins", was for Bale's performance.
"Blood Diamond" sucked, and Leo's performance wasn't great enough to get an oscar nod. He was alot better in the "Departed."
Transformers217 1 year ago
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DanEarley1987 1 year ago
To say Blood Diamond sucked is one of the most ignorant things I think I've heard anyone say. Yeah, It didn't get him an Academy Award, but he was RECOGNIZED (the nomination). Bale is a good Bruce Wayne, but his voice as Batman is terrible. You name me one bad Leo performance. And please be honest. He's one of the best, and hardest working actors in movies today. And if anything, the "praise" you say Bale got for his performance in "American Psycho" and "The Machinist"@Transformers217
DanEarley1987 1 year ago
got him a "cult" following...none of those movies were commercial successes. Leo will be around longer than the "overrated" Christian Bale. @Transformers217
DanEarley1987 1 year ago
@DanEarley1987 Leo also started off with a cult following, and gained success because of his pretty boy looks. Unlike Bale, people completely ignored Leo's talent as an actor when teenage girls started to go insane over him. And for some odd reason, some people still can't forgive him for "Titanic." Which actually boggles my mind.
But being successful, doesn't make you talented. It's pretty obvious that Bale's best performances, are better then most of Leo's performances.
Transformers217 1 year ago
@DanEarley1987 "Blood" Diamond" was terrible. The directing was bland and tediouse, the cinematography was nothing special, and the characterization was both easy, and predictable. And the love story was very cheesy, and contradicted the intense tone that the film attempted to have.
Bale is a great Bruce Wayne, and his voice for Batman is not only great at times, but fits the character perfectly. Sure, it's kinda forced at times, but that's exactly how Batman is suppose to sound.
Transformers217 1 year ago
@DanEarley1987 Leo's performances in "Beach", and "Man in the Iron Mask" were mediocre. He also had some bad moments in "Gangs of New York", and missed a couple notes in "Catch Me If you Can."
Transformers217 1 year ago
Like I said before: If Martin Scorsese picks you as De Niro's successor, you must be doing something right. Not to mention the director's he has worked with (Cameron, Speilberg, Mendes, and Scorsese). Did I mention he gets a little recognition from the Academy?@Transformers217
DanEarley1987 1 year ago
@DanEarley1987 Scorsese picked Leo, because he needed to have some commercial successes, and an Oscar. I'm not saying that Leo hasn't become a great actor within the last 5 or 6 years, he's actually getting better with age. But to say that he's better then Bale, when Bale's performance in "American Psycho" trumps most of Leo's performances, is simply asinine.
And the Academy is great, but their still a flawed system, that also goes for popularity, rather then quality.
Transformers217 1 year ago
@Ibanezguy2007 Actually DiCaprio backed out because someone from his management team mentioned how his main audience was younger women because of Titanic and this wouldn't have likely been a good role for him.
Conrii 1 year ago
@Ibanezguy2007 Wrong... Leo would have gotten the part but his agent told him he didn't want to lose his image that young people had of him. Good try though!
fatcat69696 1 year ago
@Ibanezguy2007 It's funny. Christian Bale was considered for being Jack Dawson in Titanic and Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for Patrick Bateman.
Mazmorrero2 1 year ago
The movie is meant to portray the life a psycho. Great movie i got it on blu ray and Christian Bale was awesome.
umiami11 3 years ago
that confession has ment...nothing.
pedrohijodeputa 3 years ago
I didnt get the ending?
Did he kill those people or was he imagining it?
BigGayBear2007 3 years ago
he imagined it he's a psycho
damartin90 3 years ago
The author, I believe, said all of the murders happen, but that only matters if you buy into the intentional fallacy.
JSmith99 3 years ago 2
Of course he did. He got away with everything because of what he does and where he is at. His colleagues and peers don't even know the difference between one person and another at their prestigious level because they are all so consumed in themselves. As long as they get the material possessions and the reservations at the fancy restaurants, they couldn't care less about anyone else.
dschultz6072 3 years ago 8
But....that guy said about having dinner with Paul Allen in London?
BigGayBear2007 3 years ago
Yes, but in the same scene where the Lawyer says this, he even mistakes Bateman, who he is talking to, for someone else.
There is also another scene, where someone thinks he had dinner with Paul Allan in London, but the Detective found out that it was also just a confusion.
Floeppes83 3 years ago 2
Bret Easton Ellis himself said that the murders were just bateman's desires.
Kal1850 3 years ago
Intentional Fallacy.
JSmith99 3 years ago
well said dschultz, you hit the nail right on the head (no pun intended).
shan898923 3 years ago
Actually dschultz the killings were in his mind. He was crazy and thought he killed people when he wasn't. That was the twist of the movie. It was all in his mind. Thus being a American Psycho.
Redeyeviper 3 years ago
Thats right it was all in his mind.
guztavoandrez 3 years ago
dorsia lol
mikhailr13 3 years ago
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badeboom 2 years ago
The idea is that both ways are possible, just like in the book.
On the one hand he is a crazy lunatic, takes too many drugs und is just imagining the killings to cope with his hate und inner emptyness.
On the other hand, if he'd did it hand he couldn't get caught, because in the world he lives in, nobody listens to anybody and everybody would be mistaken all the time.
That's the charm of the finale to me.
badeboom 2 years ago
this scene is amazing.
erzxy 4 years ago 6
This a well desereb oscar or at least
a golden globe chrisian bale is brilliant
3443242 4 years ago 8
Thanks for uploading. I love this movie.
Treesby 4 years ago 2