Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2004)

So, after watching it for myself I have come to my own conclusion, which is that this movie was brilliantly written. It's almost as though the writer is mocking the corporate world with the character Pat Bateman. Some of the lines for this character were quite obviously a stab at corporate conformity, (eg. "Because I want to fit in!") but my boyfriend didn't seem to grasp the concept as well as I had and was left felling as though the writing was sloppy, and the movie just all around confusing. Maybe it was. But Christian Bales performance really brings the script to life. Non-stop laughs all the way through, that is if you pick up the sick humor right from the beginning. There's also some very hard hitting scenes with a character called "Christie", which manage to show us just how inhuman Bateman really is by how she acts and behaves around him and later on, his friend. Lovely movie, but please watch it with an open mind and *Look* for those cocky hidden messages in between what "seems" to be meaningless sex scenes.