Great film, great satire.

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2005)

American Psycho is an amazing movie. It is a brilliant satire. The acting is amazing especially by Christian Bale. When you strip this movie down it is not about a serial killer. The movie has a much different and deeper meaning. In American Psycho, the dark 80's satire the message is very clear. In the 80's all the Wall Street Yuppies are the same. They only care about themselves. They all want to be perfect. Since none of them present their own personalities it is hard to distinguish them. This is why everyone confuses everyone else for other people. These people aren't all friends. They are all just using each other to get ahead. Patrick Bateman does not even know who he is. He questions his very existence. That is the first aspect of this film. The second thing is Patrick Bateman did indeed commit the murders. The only person who remotely cared about the murders was Detective Kimball. All of Patrick's friend's alibis said that he was there when in fact he wasn't. This is another example of mistaken identity. Nobody seems to care that Patrick murders. He makes it so clear to everyone but they are all just so occupied with their own lives that they don't care. At its core this movie is very similar to Wall Street. The point of this film isn't to show a serial killer killing people. It is to show that in the 80's on Wall Street most people were just obsessed with getting ahead and they didn't care about anything else. Patrick is just so annoyed with this normal lifestyle that he goes absolutely crazy and starts killing people. He already had problems to begin withyet a few things trigger him off and he goes crazy. He murders people because he wants to do something different he wants to be different from everyone else. Everyone he knows is the same type of person. That is the reason for all the mistaken identities. Although when no once even acknowledges his murders it drives him more crazy. This is why at the end he says " My punishment has eluded me" meaning his punishment escapes him. He will never be punished because no one really acknowledged that he killed these people. Then he says "My confession has meant nothing" meaning his confession didn't mean anything because no one cared.
Well anyways I think I got the meaning of this movie right. I loved this movie. The acting is incredible. Especially Christian Bale.