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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
"My nightly bloodlust is slipping into my days, I feel my mask of sanity is about to slip." Patrick Bateman American Psycho Talk about issues! While I have never read the book (thank goodness) the movie is very interesting and disturbing at the same time. It is like watching a train wreck with every mass murderer on Earth as the train conductor. A Bundy reference here, a Gein reference there, etc... On a visual level the film is disturbing, but dig a little deeper, and the true purpose of the film becomes a little bit clearer. Some have described the film as a social satire. I would describe it as a film which represents Human Nature. The rational is quickly surplanted by the irrational, and is present in the ideological meanings of events in the film. Now, I have to find a way to write a paper on this and make some sort of sense. My main point is that when the carnival (a period of social transgressions accepted and performed by others) is controlled by the rational aspects of society, it finds new ways of emerging (good, bad and UGLY). In this case the Ugly is the actions of Bateman. He does not murder for some type of gain but for the fun of it all. In all Bateman is fighting two versions of himself, one being rational and logical, the other being agressive and controlling. His killing of Paul Allen is essentally the killing of his rational self. "Your joke had one fatal flaw, Bateman is such a dork." Oh well.....WDR
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