What was the message of this movie, exactly?

>>84907538
>people richer than me are soulless

A free serving of sour grapes for the soon to be upper-middle class audience who want to be associated with being humble.

Something about dubs or trips or something

>>84907538
Never go anywhere unless you have a reservation.

>>84907538
Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks

>>84907538
Business life encourages sociopathic behaviour

>>84907538
Free-market capitalism is bad.

>>84907538
Modern-Society is completely fucked up, so much so that actual psychopthy goes unnoticed or is even dwarfed by "normal" behavior. Also shits on contemporary frivolty and materialism.

The book/movie get better with age as the criticisms only become more poignant.

>>84907538
A society obsessed with personal satisfaction is ultimately self destructive.

>>84907701
This

>>84907722
>>84907722
>>84907722

CHECKED

1) Making reservation can get you killed
2) Women find horn rimmed glasses attractive
3) You should get /fit/
4) Going on killing sprees has no consequences

Twice the pride, doubles the fall.

Repeated digits

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>>84907538

>>84907701
I would argue that modern - society has become abstract in terms of free-range thought whereas more traditional methods are seen as ideal or opportunistic.

If one could possibly take a step back from BOTH ideologies one would truly realize that humanity is in fact the same no matter how hard we try to apply different forms of social dynamics. Such is life really.

Not one of the central themes but also spoke about how rules for the rich are completely different to regular people. That's if he even did any of those things, of course.

>>84907538
cellular phone i am thinking

>>84907816
That's an interesting thought but too vague to be applicable to this movie (can be applicable to anything really)

>>84907866
Eh I just made it up. Literally no idea what I typed desu lad. Kek

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>>84907900
>read your post again more closely
>my fucking face
Well played lad

>>84907701
Tbh this is what I took away from it. The irony is that the 'normal' people around Bateman have become so ludicrously self-observed, that they dwarf even a murderous psychopath in their vanity and egotism; they've come to see their behaviour as 'normal' and experience even less discomfort from it than Bateman, who can't even draw attention to his crimes when he wants to.

Fuck rich people and materialism consumes you humanity.

Something line that.

>>84908107

bateman didn't kill any one tho : - )

>>84907816
>>84907900
>didn't understand what the fuck he was talking about in the first post
>woah anon is a fucking smart guy
>he played me
>I couldn't ask him what he meant because it'd make me look dumb.
What is it called when nobody will call you out for fear of looking inferior.

>>84907900
Still pretty gud

>>84908368
He killed Allen and his lawyer covered for him

>>84907789
Isn't that the point? We've all felt that same frustrated and empty feeling that Bateman felt. He chose to deal with it in a murderous and psychopathic way, but we all recognize that feeling, which is why you feel bad for him in the end. He's sort of like an upper class Travis Bickle.

>>84907900
/tv/ in one post.

>>84908368
>>84908469
(Spoiler warning)
The book and film play off the idea that Bateman either:

A. He never killed anyone. Each murder was part of his delusion.

B. He DID kill Allen and a bunch if other people, but people are so obsessed with themselves and their place on this weird Yuppie social hierarchy that they mistake one person with the next and can't remember anyone's name and/or face.

The implication is that Bateman's lawyer (the guy he talks to on the phone and sees the next day after his possibly unreal rampage) either actually met Paul Allen because he was never murdered, or he met someone who he mistook for Allen because of the weird blindness that affects the Yuppies.

TL;DR Bateman either killed Allen or didn't because Yuppie culture is a cancer

>>84907538
Always book in early at Dorsia

>>84908406
Popularity?

>>84908646
Did you read the book? The book is MUCH more ambiguous and leaves out retarded shit that tips the scales like the crazy shootout/cop chase.

>>84908693
But that's in the book as well you fucking idiot

>>84908725
Almost positive it's not.

>>84908741
Then you didn't read it very well, did you dumbass?

"I've been watching you, Patrick" says Luis. "I've been admiring your...hot body."

The book makes it out like he did it

>>84907701
Very nice.

you can't just stare at it, you have to eat it

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Bitches love money

>>84908781
this 2bh

>>84908763
This the book has an additional part where he is recognized by a taxi driver and robbed at gunpoint as revenge for killing someone the driver knew.

>>84907538
It's okay to be a serial killer if you're rich.

>>84908841
That could be dreamt up too, considering his persecution complex.

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Bret's a bit of an edgelord

>>84907605
1980s Manhattan was the ugliest display of humanity in modern history. Bunch of materialistic filthy rich yuppies with no morals ruling like sharks over a worn down degenerate shithole city.

>>84909055
Sounds comfy as fuck .

>>84909055
sounds like a dream

>>84909055
>implying it isn't just as shitty in the 2010s

>>84907538
we need fascism

>>84909091
Have you even been to Manhattan? It has been gentrified as fuck to the point where even Harlem has become a hipstery cultural place rather than the chaotic nigger ghetto it used to be and crime is basically gone.

>fuck yuppies
>fuck the rich
>fuck capitalism
>fuck consumerism
>fuck vanity
>fuck self-importance

>>84909112
Right but that culture of unfettered capitalism still remains. In that sense, nothing import has really changed.

I mean Donald Trump is the president of the united states. Just think about that for a second.

The book actually aged in a really funny way since it continuously references Donald Trump.

>>84909112
And this is a bad thing?

This scene is absolute kino. Especially when you compare it to all the vlogs of the youtube whores we have today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjKNbfA64EE

>>84909171
>book about yuppies references donald trump
WOW

>>84907538

Returning video tapes on time is important.

>>84909208
I didn't mean it was surprising, it just makes all of the "I have a connection with Donald Trump" things seem actually important.

>>84909147
Yeah they just hide it better

A meme so catchy that most people probably don't watch the Kino. But they should! Because it's just not just about the pleasures of getting dubs and the importance of checking them. It's also a personal statement about the meme itself.

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>There are no more numbers to repeat. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the triple, the vicious and the quadruple, all the doubles I have checked and my utter indifference toward them I have now surpassed. My singles are constant and sharp, and I do not hope for repeating digits for anyone. In fact, I want my singles tobe inflicted on others. I want no one to check em. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my GET continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new doubles can be extracted from my post. This confession has checked nothing.
What a fucking ending lads.

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>>84907538
I'll tell you right after you check my identical numerals.

>>84907538
people should get dubs

>>84907538
getting dubs

>>84907538
Rich people don't care about people and killers.

>>84909567
>>84909567
Could you get any more try hard and unfunny? I think Reddit's more up to your speed. Go take your lame attempts at fitting in there.

>>84907538
Our society is heading in a soulless and empty direction devoid of meaning and replacing it with materialism.

>>84909642
>projection: the post

>>84909033
Of course he is. Did you read the kind of shit he wrote?

>>84909694
What an impotent response.

>>84909731
t. reddit

>>84909731
What a disappointing end digit to a post.
Look at mine.

>>84909680
Pretty much this

>>84909743
>>84909740
hes right, go back to /v/ already you weird autistic little faggot

>>84909785
check em

>>84909785
>he
And /v/ doesn't have them doubles buddy.

So many amateurs ITT, check my digits

CRAZY EIGHTS

checkem

>>84908741
it is, but it's much more ambiguous whether it actually happened or not because the perspective changes into third-person, and, if i'm correct, even states that bateman felt like he was in a movie.

>>84909884
Close.

Men have a culture of toxic masculinity where a business card becomes an intense competition and dick measuring contest leading people to go crazy and murder each other.

>>84908741
It literally is?

>>84909091
>>1980s Manhattan was the ugliest display of humanity in modern history
>implying it isn't just as shitty in the 2010s
IMPLYING!? Holy crap, you have no idea what you are talking about, at all.

1980's NYC may not have been the "ugliest display of humanity in modern history", but it wasn't pretty I can tell you that. You know all those strange pop culture references and jokes about new york from 80's and early 90's tv and film? Yeah, that wasn't hyperbolic. It really did seem like the whole place could turn into The Warriors or Escape From NY at any moment. People really would have just minded their own business if they saw a ninja turtle walking down the street in midtown.

Today, you could walk from the bottom of manhattan to the top, and other than the major landmarks you'd hardly even know it was the same place. Same goes for most neighborhoods in the other boroughs (although there are certainly a few glaring exceptions).

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>>84909642
>quotes twice by mistake
>reddit with a capital letter
>various grammatical errors
>being this booty-blasted in a dubs thread
This is genuinely the most reddit post I've seen in a long time

Kill yourself

Check these 9s

What an awful fucking thread.

a proper exercise routine along with proper hygiene are a vital part of your morning ritual if you wish to be successful in life.
also, check em

>>84909147
if you read the book, the don gets mentioned about a 100-150 times. He's about the only person the mc looks up to without being envious

>>84910139
>American psycho thread not about getting dubs

Back to rëddito

>>84910222
very nice

>>84909882
Is it really likely to be a female

>>84907538
If you have to ask you're a tumbling tumbling dickweed.

>>84910291
Yes, in fact 90% of 4chan posters are girls.
Or so I'm told.

>>84907538
What was the message of this movie, exactly?

Not so much a message as it was a portrayal of the kind of anti-social arrogant self-aggrandizing nobody most chantards imagine themselves as, sans daddy's money/comfy pretend-job. Also sans the internet which left little else for him to do than fantasize.

tldr: feeding stray cats to ATM's.

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>>84910712

>>84910253
thanks!

>>84907538
He was a naughty boy who wanted to be SPANKED

A L L E N

king dubby

>>84909731
You sure raised the bar with your cookie cutter reddit insult, you dumb cunt.

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It's hip to be square.

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> To block the three-way sex scene with two prostitutes, Mary Harron and Christian Bale watched x-rated tapes. In her commentary, Harron says Bale made stick-figure drawings of the positions he thought would work best.

>In the DVD commentary, Mary Harron says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself.

> Whitney Houston refused to allow any of her songs to be used in the film.

>>84907538
You kids wouldn't be old enough to know what a yuppie is or their prevalence in 1980's new york, so google it.

>“These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting heart?" The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt. I imagine my own vacant face, the disembodied voice coming from its mouth: These are terrible times. Maggots already writhe across the human sausage, the drool pouring from my lips dribbles over them, and still I can't tell if I'm cooking any of this correctly, because I'm crying too hard and I have never really cooked anything before.”

>>84912266
This doesn't sound like a sociopath

>>84911311

but really, is this the perfect physique for aesthetics?

>>84912332
He's psychotic, not a psycho or sociopath.

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>>84912332

He's not a sociopath, just psychotic.

>"Oh, Patrick," she's saying. "You're still the same. I don't know if that's good or bad."
>"Say it's good."
>"Why? Is it?" she asks, frowning. "Was it? Then?"
>"You only knew one facet of my personality," I say. "Student."
>"Lover?" she asks, her voice reminding me of someone human.

>And though it has been in no way a romantic evening, she embraces me and this time emanates a warmth I'm not familiar with. I am so used to imagining everything happening the way it occurs in movies, visualizing things falling somehow into the shape of events on a screen, that I almost hear the swelling of an orchestra, can almost hallucinate the camera panning low around us, fireworks bursting in slow motion overhead, the seventy-millimeter image of her lips parting and the subsequent murmur of "I want you" in Dolby sound. But my embrace is frozen and I realize, at first distantly and they with greater clarity, that the havoc raging inside me is gradually subsiding and she is kissing me on the mouth and this jars me back into some kind of reality and I lightly push her away. She glances up at me fearfully.

>>84911311
>Whitney Houston refused to allow any of her songs in the film

The scenes when Bateman is talking about his love of music are my favorite. I don't particularly care for Huey Lewis in all honesty though.

>>84912603

There's an, IIRC, a total of two chapters in the book where he talks about Phil Collins and Whitney Houston. Shit's weird, but very engrossing into the mood for the book.

>>84912603
>“It's a powerful statement and one that Whitney sings with a grandeur that approaches the sublime. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late for us to better ourselves, to act kinder. Since it's impossible in the world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really, and it's beautifully stated in this album.”

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lucky JEW bastard

>>84912730
jesus anon, what does that have to do with anything?

Fail thread

>>84912979

I saw him sitting in his office, talking on the phone to the CEOs, spinning a fucking menorah.

>>84912603
>I don't particularly care for Huey Lewis in all honesty though.
I don't think the point is really that you should agree with Bateman, Anon. He's not supposed to be sympathetic or even particularly comprehensible. I'm not sure anybody actually thinks as highly of Huey Lewis as he does, possibly including Huey Lewis himself and/or members of the group.

Is the novel worth checking out?

>>84907816
This means nothing.

>>84907900
Yeah

>>84912603
>>84912625
>>84912638
>>84913833
He has entire chapters where he'll go off on a tangent about music in a very strange way. Ellis made a point to punctuate each rant with some weirdness about Bateman, like a blip about murder, knowing people might not catch it because the whole chapter would be a wall of text.

It's also a point that these rants juxtapose the idea that people might get that Bateman is some well-cultured guy. In one of them, he thinks that Whitney Houston is a jazz singer, and I think he guesses the date of a Phil Collins album wrong.

It's also of note that this extends to his descriptions of clothing. He describes everyone not exactly by how they act, but by what they wear, which speaks volumes about him alone, but if you took the time to actually realize what everyone is really wearing, they'd apparently look like clowns instead of sharp, slick investment bankers.

>>84907615
Underrated comment

around blacks, never relax

>>84907538
THIS IS NOT AN EXIT

>>84914247
Well of course not it's a post.

>>84911166
nice dubs! well done

White people are fucking crazy yo

>>84914309
It isn't crazy to want to harm someone else.

>>84913833
Who says I sympathize with him? I just don't like Huey Lewis and personally think Genesis was fine when the band was together and when they split then did their own thing.

>>84914447
>almost 4 4s
Damn.

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>>84914447
I want to harm you.

>>84914544
Seen

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>>84914740
Come on buddy give me your worst.

>>84907538
Always return your video tapes on time.

>>84909091
Jesus christ pick up a history book you mental midget

>>84915862
After you.

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so /tv/ finally properly discussed american psycho huh,fascinating

This will always be the comfiest movie for me. Watched it while snuggling with a lewd girl next door redhead.

>>84916384
You posted this in yesterday's thread too you pathetic faggot.

>>84909055
>1980s Manhattan was the ugliest display of humanity in modern history. Bunch of materialistic filthy rich yuppies with no morals ruling like sharks over a worn down degenerate shithole city.
1990es Russia was like that, but 10 times worse.

>>84916459
You're more pathetic for remembering that. That memory and the woman will always be one of my most treasured things, things that i can never go back to.

>>84910199
Is this true?

>>84916559
Good.

>>84914927
bitch

Listening 80's pop music makes you want to kill people

>>84919040
This is indisputable