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Post by Professor Layton on Sept 20, 2012 20:17:22 GMT -5
So I recently saw American Psycho, for the first time if you can beleive it. The ending confused me a bit until I caught on. It seems to leave it up to the viewer whether or not he actually killed all those people or if it was just in his head.
Nobody seems to notice any disappearances of the victims, but on the other hand mistaken identity seems to be a major theme as does caring primarily for your own self-interest, which could explain how others would be oblivious or purposely overlook the murders.
What do you think?
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Post by Treshulk on Sept 20, 2012 20:33:06 GMT -5
I actually just saw American Psycho for the first time in June myself. Don't feel too bad!
I loved it, and my first impression once the credits started to roll was that the murders were real. I was certain people just had their heads in the clouds and couldn't accept him as someone who was out of the norm, no matter how hard he tried to convince them.
However, thinking back on it, it now makes more sense to me that it was all in his head. His little sketchbook depicting all his murders, and the fact that most the murders happened to people who weren't "there" to begin with, just make me think he has a very active imagination. I could be remembering some things wrong, but eh. I like the idea of the murders being real, but I just feel like they weren't.
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Post by Byron on Sept 20, 2012 21:10:32 GMT -5
The events towards the end with the chainsaw in the hooker and the cat-hungry ATM were clearly fantasy, but this fact was only made apparent to the viewer so that the viewer would look back and question the whole movie. You are made to question, but you aren't supposed to be able to figure it out. In this way you are drawn into Bateman's delusions. You can't distinguish fantasy from reality any better than he can, and at the end of the movie you genuinely feel the way the protagonist does. The answer to your question is that it's both. Some was real, some wasn't, but you'll never know what was what and that's the point.
Brilliant movie.
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Post by Treshulk on Sept 21, 2012 11:47:00 GMT -5
Crazy... Never thought of it that way! How many times have you seen the movie, by chance?
Is it still possible, though, that it could actually all be real/all be imaginary, then? By the logic of not knowing what is what, you could still draw any number of conclusions on what was going on. Or, is there evidence that some of it actually did happen that I'm forgetting?
By the way: Have any of you seen The Machinist? It's another "Christian Bale plays a guy who's losing it" kind of movie, but it's another really great ride into the mind of a character with severe mental disorders.
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Post by Silly on Sept 21, 2012 12:15:49 GMT -5
I have not seen this. I'm a bad person. I'll get right on it though.
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