American Pyscho.... if you haven't seen it don't read this!?!


Question: Could someone please help me with this movie. I have seen it a couple of times and I still don't fully understand it. Did he in fact kill all of those people? Did he kill Paul Allen?
Thank you thank you!!!


Answers: Could someone please help me with this movie. I have seen it a couple of times and I still don't fully understand it. Did he in fact kill all of those people? Did he kill Paul Allen?
Thank you thank you!!!

As per IMDB FAQ:

The answer is that yes, Patrick Bateman did commit the murders. His peers (who often confused his identity with others anyway) were so shallow and focused on themselves that they didn't even notice.

Bret Easton Ellis, the author of the original book, argues that if none of the murders actually happened, that the entire point of the novel would be rendered moot. He has stated that the novel was intended to satirize the shallow, impersonal mindset of yuppie America in the late 1980s.

Director Mary Harron (in a Charlie Rose interview) and co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner (in the DVD commentary) have both stated explicitly that the murders were in fact real. They consider it a major failure of the film that viewers are confused by this point.

Some fans still contest that the actions in the film were all fragments of Patrick Bateman's warped mentality (which coincides with his delusion at the ATM machine and his improbable murderous rampage). Bateman, using the sketchbook in his desk that his secretary finds, imagined all of the grotesque murders as an escape from the falsities of the world around him, and his imagined world turns out to be just as warped and twisted as his everyday yuppie life.

i havent seen it in ages but what i remember is that he didnt actually kill anyone. he was just crazy and thought he'd killed them.

i might not be right though cos i saw it years ago

From what I understood of the film he didn't kill anyone - it was a dream

I saw it years ago when it first came out on DVD

We don't really know, that's what makes it so cool. He was clearly psychotic, but psychotic in way where he just had all those thoughts in his head and believed he had done them? or psychotic in a way where he actually did do all those things and people in high society have become so impersonal and self-absorbed that they don't notice anything around them?

READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ha ha! i read it anyway.

This is never explained...it is left to the viewer's interpretation. However, IMO, it appears as though it was all in his head.

I guess the ending is open ended enough to allow differing opinions but I understood it to be that he never killed anyone. The fact that one of his victims was seen alive by other characters after his supposed murder took place and the lack of blood and gore in the apartment being shown by the real estate agent made me thing it was all in his mind. It is a great movie.



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