I changed my name to Patrick Bateman

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2002)

American Psycho is a real good film; I haven't watched a movie this intensely in a long time! This movie kept me glued to the screen and it pressed me to look deep into the mind of this american madman. (That is, until I eventually was nauseated by all the gore and disturbing emotions that I had to take a break.) Everything in this movie is perfectly crafted with precise and deliberate measures to make for an extraordinary movie- The "narrow-minded" camera, which only let's us see cutouts of the scenes, The many faces of Patrick, which take us into his "warped" mind and shows us the stress he faces as the pressure rises, and the supporting actors, who let us see why the world becomes too much for Harvard graduate Patrick Bateman... (Patrick Bateman... sounds like Norman "Bates," doesn't it? Correlations between the Hitchcock classic Psycho and this movie go way and beyond- take the music, for instance.) This movie will interest anyone that has brains and a concept about what emotional pain is. Watch your step, madness is just around the corner for some people; maybe there is a Patrick Bateman in all of us...