American Psycho ending monologue

This is the ending monologue from the film adaptation of American Psycho

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• American
• Psycho
• bateman
• patrick
• christian
• bale

[riponyou907]

@traphoot man im sick of people like you trying to explain the ending, it's left open man, you can think that go ahead doesnt mean your right though, its called a theory.

[TheXsK]

After just watching this for the first time, I was confused.

Bateman's lawyer told him that he had dinner with Paul recently, so I thought none of it actually happened, like it was all in his mind, but after reading comments I get it now.

Thank you internet.

[Leaderofspirestone]

Read the book guys and stfu.

[horsey05]

@Crafter07 I think this goes into the whole "mistakened identity" theme in the movie. They would change the names of people they thought they knew, and they were called different names by others as well. I think.

[AnotherMasterMind]

@MrVarsityphysics I was using the word insane when meaning sociopathic or psychotic. My bad, the words are too often used synonymously.

[MrVarsityphysics]

@AnotherMasterMind Isn't insane when one is unaware of their condition?

[Cuss100]

It's not as open ended as you want to think, Bret Easton Ellis wrote the American Psycho 2000 emails that state Bateman did kill Paul and got away with it, some unknown incident occurred that forced him to leave Pierce and Pierce and start his own bank, Kimball became Police Commisoner and is good friends with Bateman, he married Jean and divorced her after having a son, he still kills but not as much because of his son. It turns out Jean is dating Batemans shrink who Bateman has been emailing.

[Crafter07]

How did patricks lawyer eat lunch with Paul ? he just killed him... WTF

[AnotherMasterMind]

This film was brilliant because it's actually about the psychotic nature of society. People are so self absorbed and unaware that they woudn't know a serial killer if he screamed their confession right in their face. Patrick Bateman may have been insane, but unlike the fake idiots around him, he is aware of it. Everyone wears a mask, Patrick just takes his off once in a while.

[TheLovemonster8]

@riponyou907 actually what happened was the author of the book wanted to go with Patrick being insane, and none of this being real. but the director wanted to play off the greed and non-human-ness of 80's wall street brokers, saying that just as "paul" though patrick was someone else, patrick thought someone random was "paul" and he never actually talked to paul, and killed someone completely different. boom explained

[TeamPlasmaKingN]

@Dontmakemecomeover5 Well.. Everything in general. Maybe because you explained the same thing a bit differently worded? Idk.