American Psycho

Production: Christian Halsey Solomon (Producer) — Edward R. Pressman (Producer) — Chris Hanley (Producer) — Michael Paseornek (Executive Producer) — Joseph Drake (Executive Producer) — Jeff Sackman (Executive Producer)

Screenplay: Guinevere Turner (Screenplay) — Mary Harron (Screenplay)

Music: John Cale (Original Music Composer)

Cinematography: Andrzej Sekula (Director of Photography)

Wall Street, late 1980s: Patrick Bateman is a successful thirty-something, handsome, rich, established in his career, and well-liked (at least in appearance) by everyone. Behind his "mask of normality" hides a man absolutely devoid of morals and feelings, who, when he lets go of his inhibitions, turns into a bloodthirsty killer who tortures, kills, and butchers his victims. This is the cinematic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' eponymous bestseller, which upon release sparked a hornet's nest of controversies for the violence of its contents; the film, however, lacks the key element of Ellis' book, namely "explicit violence". The director opted for a much softer screenplay that focuses more on the protagonist's manias for the cult of hygiene and beauty. The result is a film extremely well-crafted in its details (from every point of view: the set designer recovered old VCRs, original walkmans, and clothes, all belonging to the eighties) but fails to convey to the viewer that sense of "disgust" and "shock" that the novel knew how to give. Yet another missed opportunity! Notably, there is a double reference to Hooper's masterpiece "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

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It is one of the most important films during the last 20 years and one of the powerful movie that left an impact on American cinema. The film talks about a hysterical, insane, murderous character who herself is a character who realizes from within that she is a murderer and describes herself with important dialogue sentences that talk about the nature of the character in the voice of the hero himself.

Patrick Bateman was a thug who wanted to convey his suffering to others, and he did not see that no one had a future. He did not show any good feelings to anyone, because his suffering wanted to convey it to everyone around him, while he was without emotion and did not desire anything but hatred and hatred for everyone. It was these sentences at the beginning and end of the movie that were a complete description of the character.

The director wanted to show the viewers the nature of Wall Street work and who works inside it in the old periods of this time, and all their concern and only goal was appearances and pretending with suits, glasses and cards that they made for themselves.

Acting was at the highest level from Christian Bale. Acting was the distinguishing element in the work, in addition to music. The idea of linking musical or romantic works with a murderer was unique

I want be Patrick Bateman, well without the sociopathic tendencies and the murder, but his workout routine, apartment, and job are cool...

Jokes aside, this movie bangs, literally and metaphorically. Christian Bale is great. The cast is stacked. Cool imagery, fantastically paced, and some wild turns the had me baffled.

Score: 90% Verdict: Excellent

Well it's definitely what the title says he's a american psycho. That's an understatement. Really good movie.

Not so much an American Psycho as a Wall Street (Journal) psycho. When you look at America in 2024 it's almost a documentary.

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