A movie about wall street and a psycho being the backdrop!

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2003)

By Kumayl Before starting out I would like to give you readers a brief introduction. American psycho was a very extreme and violent novel that was also infact due to its content the most 'controversial' piece of literature ever produced. But what the director has done, she has basically 'toned' down the graphic nature of the book and converted it into a materialistic and worldly psychopath killer: The 80's Wall Street greed.
On a personal note, American Psycho is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen! It is truly my favorite film of all time.
Now, I know the name Psycho presents material violent in nature but director Mary Harron has portrayed this movie from the innermost feelings exposed directly from the main character being Patrick Bateman outstandingly played by actor Christian Bale. (Who currently is working on a new `Batman' movie scheduled for release in the summer of 2005).

Patrick Bateman is a complete definition of a perfect young upcoming urban professional, a.ka. `Yuppie'. He has all the characteristics of a human being but not a single clear identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. All his friends and coworkers talk about is money and Donald Trump and although Patrick tries to embrace these money-oriented issues he simultaneously transforms himself into a sick repulsive madman.

American Psycho teaches us that there can be a Patrick Bateman everywhere. He could be our neighbor, our colleague, a person we brush into while we walk into a supermarket or even a person at Kashmir Road! The fact that we cannot recognize a psychopath is that they easily blend into our society making us think that they are normal. I mean in the final chapters of the book author Bret Easton Ellis shows Patrick Bateman losing his sanity so badly that he resorts to drinking his own urine, sleeping under his futon and eating handfuls of sand on the beach while his fiancé manicures her nails.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to people faint of heart or children. This movie is not about killing in any way. Its about how our society itself with all its glamour and greed can make a man transform into a complete sadist slaughterer. It's a movie which will be enjoyed by young people living in the Manhattan atmosphere at where this movie and book's plot is located.