Deep or superficial?

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2000)

When I waited for the film to start, I expected to be an ordinary horror film. I must say that I was quite surprised. The opening scene with Bateman taking off his skin care mask was great- under this mask he is wearing another one, a mask which isolates him from any type of human contact. The film refers, although in an ironic way,to the discussion about the postmodern man, who is what he wears. As Bateman himself claims: "the modern man cannot feel anything but disgust and greed". I found the film very depressing- there is no "real" world or identity; everything we have is our own conception of the word.
There are also other interesting comments about modern culture in the film. The references to Psycho and a Clockwork Orange are obvious.

I liked the way that the film was arranged. The director didn't concentrate too much on the violence. Perhaps the focusing on the eightÃ­es-stuff stole someone's attention , but it was still necessary, because it revealed Bateman's own outlook on the world. I thought that this film was at least as good as the other work of the director.(I Shot Andy Warhol is to be recommended)