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American Psycho (2000)
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>Cast: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, John Lucas, Bill Sage, Chloe Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe. <
>Running Time: 101 minutes <
>Rated R for strong violence, sexuality, drug use and language. <
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>"American Psycho" is a disturbing movie filled with the brutal murders and executions of various people (mostly of the female persuasion). What's really scary is that through much of the movie, our funny bone is being tickled. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale, in a star-making turn) is a shallow Wall Street banker who lives an empty life. He lives and dies by a soda pop advertising slogan: Image Is Everything. Set in the late 1980s, he is of a time when style reigns supreme over substance, obsessed with his physical beauty, getting into the trendiest restaurants, and nitpicking with his coworkers about who has the best business cards. Said co-workers (Jared Leto, Matt Ross, Justin Theroux, and Josh Lucas), all have the same haircut and business suits, and for all intents and purposes are interchangeable. Bateman's sex life isn't exactly lacking, by any means. He's engaged to the shallow Evelyn Williams (Reese Witherspoon), but cheats on her with her best friend Courtney (Samantha Mathis). He picks up a hooker off the street (Cara Seymour) and gets her in a threesome with another one of his friends, Elizabeth (Guinevere Turner, who co wrote the script). His secretary Jean (Chloe Sevigny) also secretly lusts after him. Little does she know that he seems to have knocked off his best friend Paul Allen (Leto), a nameless homeless man, and countless members of the fairer sex, all by increasingly imaginative killing methods (staple gun, chainsaw, ATM machine; he tries it all). Eventually he finds he's being trailed by detective Kimball (Willem Dafoe), who's investing Allen's disappearance but also seems to know a bit more about Patrick than he should. From this moment on Bateman's inner demons are unleashed as he descends into an unending frenzy of paranoia and murder. <
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>Directed by Mary Harron ("I Shot Andy Warhol", "The Notorious Betty Page") made a clever social satire film mixed brilliantly with horror. This film is loaded with dark humor, while Bale gives a dynamic performance. This independent film has high production values, a fine music score by John Cale and good looking cinematography by Andrzej Sekula ("Pulp Fiction"). The film adaptation shows the depths of the novel refraining from its cruelty. Even though it boasts some shocking scenes (i.e. the chainsaw) the nature of the impact is mainly psychological and relies very much on the impressive performance by Christian Bale, once again proving the wonderful actor he is. Rather than being dark and ambiguous with respect to the main character, Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner have chosen to look at him from outside thus exposing his pantheism and twisted sense of reality, therefore avoiding any chance of glamorization of the character, and the film is constantly mocking his yuppie macho conceit, something the novel left the reader to do him/herself. Also, it deserves to be noted that the film is much more woman-friendly than the novel could possibly ever be, most female characters (including the melancholy Courtney) being sympathetic. There is no scope for misogyny here. American Psycho" is a movie that pushes the limits of the audience's ability to cope for a number of reasons. A film told from the point of view of a psychotic is harsh enough, but the film also beckons the audience to question their own sanity. You're forced to look at your own sensibilities and morals and put them to the test...can you condone Bateman's actions and thoughts? Do you agree with them? Sometimes you find yourself saying yes to these questions, and for this some people may call it a travesty. By the same token, it pushes the envelope, thus it could even be called a triumph. Be warned: this is not a film for all tastes, but one thing is certain, it is one of a kind.

Strange, Messed Up, Brutal - Yet, Interesting
I don't get this movie at all. I'm just going to say that. I never read the book even though I heard that it's pretty intense, violent, and sadistic, but I really don't know what I can say about this movie. <
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>Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a wealthy businessman whose worries consists of where he will be eating dinner that night or what his business card looks like. He makes his body perfect by working out and cleansing daily. He's supposedly getting married to Evelyn (Reese Witherspoon), yet has an affair with one of his business partner's fiancee. Oh yah, and I forgot to mention he kills women and men when he can squeeze it in to his schedule. <
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>This is the plot. He goes to work that day, goes out to lunch with his buddies, goes back to work, makes a dinner reservation, maybe goes clubbing after, meets a girl, takes her back to his place, then kills her (or sometimes doesn't). The whole point of the film is that Bateman's sanity is falling away. He believes that he's not a real person. He's supposedly never there and doesn't exist, but I guess in someway, after killing people, he feels restored. <
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>Ladies and gentleman, I'm at a loss of words. "Memento" still is very compelling and moving, "Seven" is still so morbid and dark, yet "American Psycho" is so "out there". <
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>This not to say I did not like it (after all, I did give it 3 stars - not too bad). I loved the style and look of the film. It was clean and pure looking (until Bale stuck an axe in someone). I enjoyed Christian Bale's performance. Again, it was so different, weird, and creepy that it worked. Other actors such as Willem Dafoe and Jared Leto show up as a detective and business partner (not for long). <
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>The thing I don't get about it is. Why would I like this movie? Why would anyone like this movie? There really are no redeeming values about it. Yet, I liked it...I liked the characters, the pacing, and mainly everything. <
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>I just don't get the point of the movie. What was it trying to get across to me? Is Bateman really killing people or is it something he just wants to do? Does he kill because he needs to feel something or does he fantasize about it, because it makes him feel fulfilled? There are so many questions and I'm not one to look for for answers. <
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>Overall, the movie kind of shook me. I kind of felt bad liking it, because it is sadistic and brutal. Yet, I loved the characters, style, and pacing. This is probably my most confusing review as of now, but as I said before, "I don't get this movie at all". Hopefully, you will. I recommend it, but it's not one of those movies I'll want to see again. <
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>Rated R for sadistic violence, sexuality, drug use, language, and gore.