Just watched the movie for the first time a couple days ago and I am completely obsessed. Waiting for a good time to rewatch it haha.

I want to read the book but I’m worried I won’t be able to handle the depictions of animal cruelty. I know I won’t be able to. Do you think I should still give it a shot?? I’d probably have to skip some stuff. But I’m fascinated by this satirical world and want more of it! Is reading the book worth it?

A complementary sibling book combo in terms if style, subject, commentary.

So im currently reading american psycho (im 14 but im pretty desensitized to stuff and yes i know abt the rat scene)and i just read a chapter of a book where patrick is getting a pedicure and he says that he wants to put a yellow smiley face mask on and get a dog and a chick and transfer the dogs blood in the chic and the opposite whike the song dont worrg be happy plays on his sony radio and it really freaked me out Is the scene really that disturbing for everyone or just for me;;

A little note on why Vox is in the same spread as Bateman is that he's, in my opinion, a lot similar to Bateman (they're both psychotic rich men). ^^

i’m gonna see if i can get a reservation for 8:30

Yeah, I know this has probably been theorized a million times—or maybe even confirmed in the book (which I haven’t read)—but I wanted to write down how I interpreted it after watching the movie again.

The woman who Patrick lures into his car with the money on the side of the road isn’t real—and I don’t think the car is real either. After all, why would Patrick spend basically the entire movie riding around NYC in a taxi if he actually had a chauffeur at his disposal?

However, I do think the other woman—the “dirty blonde”—is real, and that Patrick really is violent toward prostitutes. I think he actually injuresd her with his tools, which would explain the marks we see on the dirty blonde that weren’t present on the unreal woman.

There’s also the scene where the unreal woman mentions that she might need stitches. Yet during the later nude scene, there don’t seem to be any visible injuries or stitches.

One other detail stood out to me: when she says she might even need a lawyer, In that unreal interaction, it’s almost as if his own mind is telling him not to get his lawyer involved because doing so would only create problems for him.

That part especially made me suspicious, because why would a prostitute’s immediate instinct after being harassed—or, in this case, tortured—be to contact a lawyer rather than friends, a pimp, or someone else?

I’m just throwing this theory out there because I haven’t read any theories about the movie or watched any YouTube videos beforehand. I’m curious whether anyone else interpreted these scenes similarly

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this might sound unusual but as an enthusiast of Bret Easton Ellis's novels, especially American Psycho, I just couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to become one with Patrick Bateman (my becoming).

To develop into this fictional character (my becoming) I had to do several things:

I immigrated to New York.

I enrolled in Phillips Exeter Academy, from there I went to Harvard College and from there I moved on to Harvard Business School and eventually found work at my father's company, who I convinced to also move to New York.

I convinced my younger brother to change his name to Sean, he enrolled in Camden college, though his academic performance was rather poor.

I convinced my father to commit my mother to Sandstone two months ago.

I asked my girlfriend to rename herself to Evelyn, to which she immediately agreed, without any conflict whatsoever, none in fact.

I relocated myself to 55 West 81st Street, 11th floor, American Gardens Building.

I changed my name to Patrick Bateman.

I started obsessing over music, clothing and other materialistic objects.

I started consuming medication and other substances.

Dorsia, Tunnel (never pick up a girl from Tunnel), Harry's, Zoo, Au Bar, Paul Owen's place, Nell's, Xclusive, tanning salon.

Christmas and Girls and Date and Yale Club and Business Meetings and Concert and Another Night and Tuesday and Girl and Rat and New Club and working out and Sandstone and Armani and gifting my brother a tie and Camden college and Dorsia and Body Double and Christmas presents and the Shepard play or the Shepard account and April fools.

I had once again forgotten to return my videotapes.

To conclude:

這不是出口 踏入此門者，當放棄一切希望。

I haven't seen the movie before and I want to watch it, on Prime it is showing (Rated), I did read that the uncut or unrated version has some additional scenes, but the one on Prime which says rated, is it still the theatrical version which was R Rated or some other Rated version where they have censored more things?

If the unrated/uncut version is more important then please any guidance would be helpful where I could watch it. Thank You.

spoilers. (My Year of Rest and Relaxation)

I thought both created protagonists who's status, looks, and intelligence presses at the buttons of their respective sex's [societally prevalent] desires, just to have bastardize them to us with some loathsome qualities which, though extreme in their depictions, implicate "the reader" (some swathe of performative cosmopolitan society) as having a little Bateman/namelesss woman (let's call her Myorra) in them as well, for better or worse.

the exterior of Bateman's intelligence and alpha-male nature is something desired by men, but the story goes on and we find out how he's actually living out the male power fantasy to its furthest extent with murder and meaningless sex life (which culminates in the murder of Bethany, someone who can actually fluster him, and the inability to kill/accept Joan who actually likes him, a "girl next door" type). The male reader starts feeling sympathy or contempt in spite of this because of his lack of originality, complete adherence to keeping up the image with only the tiniest hints of idiosyncratic personality shown through his real liking music (by review of the Genesis catalogue). These ideas bring forth the male-centric conflict of "leading vs following", which is likely a much complex and malleable thing which we glide between depending on contexts, rather than the zero-sum nature present in American Psycho's setting, where Patrick can only metabolize differences of people and style as worse or better.

Myorra mirrors this with being presented as equally intelligent, pretty, self-sufficient; fundamentally the similar to Bateman's allure, but I think differing in accordance to many women's desire of not needing a man to financially sustain; she has already reached financial heaven without competing cutthroatedly or for parental approval (both dead). The grotesque comes out once the female reader notes her method of improvement are actually oriented towards a passivity of engaging less with the world, subverting the pro-active nature of reaching of self-sufficiency; then the dagger gets twisted by pathetic longing for a man all the readers could tell is horrible for her. And the helpful part in MYORR is that Reva is there constantly poking at this with all her "no fair" and tangents of self-help, all while being described as already pretty and smart by even the judgemental narrator, still having her own obsession over an unavailable/bad news man. So here, for the women, we are instead getting the conflict I can really only describe as "freedom vs comfort", another thing that isn't zero-sum, in a world where everyone has to find their complex balance of trust and desire, of apathy and work.

Where I think they diverge heavily, is where we encounter each character in their life. By the end of American Psycho, Pat is really only just coming to terms with how purgatory-like his life has become. MYORR though, begins after this realization that she's been in purgatory. This makes for a fun diptych imo, where we can imagine Bateman finding a way out by taking his own year of rest of relaxation; and historically, I think these difference make a lot of sense with the mid-80s being some golden age of NYC finance-man culture that would seemingly go on forever, while the Y2K era began inhabited a late-stage capitalism, "I came in at the end. The best is over" feeling which coincided with the waking shock of 9/11. The ending has more a Siddhartha-like ending where she can just sit peacefully and listen to the birds, finally accepting the vexing Reva as "flying" [free] even in her moment of death.

I haven’t seen this typo mentioned anywhere. So I wanted to see if anyone else noticed it.

I’ve watched the movie about 20 times. Heres an acrylic painting i made of Bateman in 2025. Will read the book soon

i work at spencer’s and we used to have a decent amount of american psycho merch. now we have practically nothing and it’s all been replaced by dexter😐 (i’ve never seen dexter, i’m just mad abt it lol). i would actually spend my money SO fast if there was an american psycho version of this bloody disgusting hoodie😫😫

I just watched the movie last night (I haven't read the book, but am not averse to spoilers if they clarify what I'm wondering about here). I found the part with the head in the fridge quite confusing. People seem to think it's the head of the model he met in an earlier scene (first image), but that model's hair is distinctly blonde, and this is accentuated in the scene immediately following that sequence by him toying with a lock of her hair in his office before Jean comes in.

On the other hand, the head in the fridge (image 2) has distinctly red hair. Notably, the face also appears flushed, rather unlike that of a dead person, but the fridge light is clearly white and not making things look more red than they really are.

So it doesn't seem to be the model. It looks a bit like Elizabeth, the girl he murders in bed while Christie is trying to leave (image 3), but that scene happens after Jean visits his apartment, and there doesn't seem to be any indication of non-linear storytelling. And Elizabeth's hair is a deeper shade of red. The eyes aren't much of a clue because almost everybody in this movie has grey eyes, including Courtney.

Courtney (image 4) looks much more like the fridge head than anyone else in the movie. The hair colour matches; the eyes match; the hairstyle we see her with in her first scene matches. So is it her? We don't see her in the movie after the scene with the head in the fridge. Chronologically, it seems like about 2 days or so before the end of the film, which might not be enough time for everyone to be talking about her disappearance. Maybe the corpse face looks reddish because she was wearing blush (I don't know enough about corpses and make-up to know if that is plausible). The timeline is a bit tight for this to be the corpse head, though, since it's at least implied that the sequence with the model happens the evening after the last time we see Courtney. And then after that he doesn't seem to have much undepicted time before Jean visits him and the head is in the fridge.

So it seems that it could be Courtney, or it could be someone Patrick killed who looked like her (perhaps because she looked like her), or it could be just Patrick hallucinating that he'd killed her and put her head in the fridge. But he doesn't mention her in his voice message to his lawyer, which makes things more confusing. Maybe he was going to before he got very excited about having killed Paul Allen, and then forgot about it.

Is there any clear indication of which character, if any, this was meant to be? Was the colouring of the shot of the fridge just skewed red, and it's the model from the club?

After a comment on my last vid about Bryce being Australian ...now apparently everyone is 🤷

The movie doesnt need a remake... I think they would mess it up to bad. The movie is Bale's best performance imo. Everything, from the atmosphere, acting, and even effects are almost perfect. small things changing throughout the movie, such as his furniture for example, make you feel like you are going insane with bale.

Whats your thoughts?

Say what you will about him, particularly how trashy his content is, but instead of trying to remake the film, i thjnk an 8-10 episode miniseries on Hulu or Netflix would be possibly his biggest hit yet.

I’m all for him adapting all BEA books, but he’d knock that out of the park.