Director Mary Harron tries to square the circle by holding onto the buzz created by Ellis’s woman-hating bloodfest while adding a soupçon of satire. It turned out that filling a book with appalling depictions of misogynistic torture wasn’t the shortest road to fame and riches.ĭespite its excesses (ultimately, of course, because of them), American Psycho proved too hot not to handle. Unfortunately for Ellis, he overshot the mark. When Ellis wrote American Psycho back in 1991, he probably had no higher motive than to write the most disgusting, and thus the most profitable, book he could imagine. American Psycho, based on the bloodstained novel by Bret Easton Ellis, 2 is the latest assault on the Reign of Reagan. Here we are, hip-deep in the Year 2000, with almost eight years of Bill Clinton under our belt, so to speak, and they’re still pissed about the eighties.
Never let it be said that liberals can’t carry a grudge.
Later, he 1) insults his dear sweet secretary (Chloe Sevigny), who loves him despite the fact that he treats her like dirt 2) gets into endless one-upmanship contests with his sleazy look-alike think-alike act-alike Wall Street buddies over business cards, suits, haircuts, luggage, restaurants, watches, and cars 3) browbeats his pill-popping, booze-guzzling dim-bulb blonde bitch of a fiancé (Reese Witherspoon, who probably should have known better) 4) browbeats his pill-popping, booze-guzzling dim-bulb blonde bitch of a mistress (Samantha Mathis) 5) hacks a coworker to death with an ax 6) murders a homeless man (a black homeless man!) 7) squishes the black homeless man’s dog! (his dog!) 8) murders half a dozen prostitutes 9) murders four cops 10) murders an old lady 11) shoots a cat! 1 As he anoints his buff-enough-for- Bay-Watch bod with an endless series of unguents, emollients, lubricants, and conditioners (who does he think he is, a movie star?), Bateman fills us in via the voiceover that he’s a hollow man. Wall Street smoothie Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is preparing to meet the new day.
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