I think a lot of people are missing what this is about

Rating: 4/10 (27 April 2000)

spoilers
first off, am I the only one who noticed the blatant Hitchcock's "Psycho" references in this movie? Outside of the fact that it is called "american PSYCHO" and the main character's name is patrick BATEman (norman BATEs) also, as the movie went along, I also started noticing music that was very similar to bernard herman's score for "Psycho". I have not read the novel, but any writer can tell you that if you choose to write a book with psycho in the title about a homicidal maniac whom has a similar name to one Norman Bates, you better expect some parallels. it's sort of like if I wrote a book called the RAVEN's nest and the damsel in distress' name was Lenore. you get me?
now that I am done raving about that, I can talk about the movie itself. honestly, I think that this whole thing is about identity. I think that herron was trying to say that if we allow ourselves the opportunity to get lost in our identity (in this case the loss of identity is through mid eighties commercialism) then we lose hold of our perceptions of reality. Patrick bateman had become a product of this culture that promotes the idea that your identity can be reduced to your business card. once he had fallen into this state of faceless day to day doldrums where none of the people in a circle of friends can tell each other apart, he lost control over himself, and started to release himself through remorseless killings. only the thing is, just like the rest of his life, it was all a charade. patrick bateman wasn't actually killing people, it was just his way of releasing, and it turned to unbelievable preportions. do you actually think that he really shot two police cars untill they exploded, and then was chased into a high rise by a police helicopter, only to be walking around in public the very next day? comeon.