He had a comfy life, what the fuck was wrong with him?

>>87466087
He didn't get these dubs

you didnt get the movie

He wanted those dubs

That's the whole point. He didn't know what was wrong with himself

Not as comfy as repeating numerals

>>87466266
nice dubs,check these trips

He didnt have these trips

>>87466087
He was a lawyer, right? Did we ever see him work?

>>87466087
he was a psycho

>>87466925
>He was a lawyer, right?

No. He was in Mergers and Acquisitions, so probably an MBA with an econ/finance background.

>>87466925
>Did we ever see him work?

No. He had a cooshy job that was more social mingling than actual work.

Did he just want a quiet life?

>>87467025
What the hell was his job?

>>87467123

vice president

>>87466087
If you stare into the comfy, the comfy stares back at you

>>87466087
he didnt get THESE dubs

>>87466087
It was literally too comfy
Nothing excited him anymore so he slowly went insane, due to a lack of stimulus

>>87469422
>slowly went insane


he was likely always a sociopath but it took him that long until his urges overtook him.

He had double digit IQ. Much like the ones in my post number.

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>>87466104

>>87469499
Checked

None of it actually happened.

He was drowning in an ocean of materialism and lacked an identity of his own. Though extremely intelligent, he sits on the spectrum somewhere, this is more apparent in the book (meticulously listing the designers and types of all clothing surrounding him, extensive electronics knowledge, chapters completely dedicated to fanatical music reviews, etc.). He clearly has a plethora of mental disorders, but he was constantly trying to fit in with his shallow peers, which probably did even more damage to his psyche.

Also, check em.

>>87469499
Cheeeeek
theeeeeeese
duuuuuuuuuuubs
Check these dubs

stop trying to get dubs and actually get dubs

>>87469612
DUDE RICH PEOPLE ARE WEIRD BEING POOR IS BETTER LMAO

lack of dubz

>>87469775
Why not show us then?

>>87469806
he probably would have skullfucked people and ate their brains even as a poor person

>>87469806
dude everything is black and white lmao

Nobody around him wanted to talk about good music from Phil Collins, Huey Lewis and Whitney Houston.

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>>87466087
Comfort means nothing when all the things society tells you that you should want are ultimately meaningless to you. He was trapped in a life he could not escape and manifested severe disassociation. In the end, he lived a life that was so unremarkable among his peers that nobody even recognized him as an individual. This ultimately allowed him to walk away from his crimes as if he did not commit them, thus likely deepening his madness.

Then again, there's always the theory that Bateman was just flat out losing his mind and believed his idle fantasies of savage violence to be reality, and that he never committed any of his crimes in the first place.

>>87469499
Impressive. Very nice.

>>87469880
Whether or not Bateman actually killed those people is irrelevent to the questions audiences should actually be asking themselves.

>Do I try too hard to fit in? Am I living the life I want to live?

Off by 1, fuck me.

>>87470137
i don't think it is

Bateman looked, acted, dressed, had the same job, the same friends, etc as everyone else in his social circle (to the point where they all got each other confused like when Paul Allen kept calling him "Halberstram")

By killing people, Bateman was oddly enough breaking out of that mold and being an individual.

He wad psychotic, that's what was wrong.

GRAB A ROBE...BUT NOT THE BIJON

>>87470181
Care to tell me why?

>>87469880

I thought he got away with it because he was extremely rich, and that it was in the community's best interest that he wasn't arrested. He seems like he wanted to be punished for his crimes, but couldn't because nobody would acknowledge them. Guilt, but bo punishment.

>>87470236
you might have to be willing to actually kill those people in a manner of speaking

>>87470275
Which people? I feel like you skipped something.

Bateman is actually Timothy Bryce (the guy from Leftovers).

In both the book and the movie, Bateman says "Timothy Bryce is the only interesting person I know".

And only in the book Bryce runs off and disappears after a night of drinking and drugs not to be seen for a while.

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Let see Paul Allen's dubs

>>87470298
i was attempting to paraphrase your original comment

>>87466087
A comfy life? His job is full of maniacs. You don't appreciate comfort when you have a job that gives you more stress than being unemployed.

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>>87469422
>>87469499
>>87466266

>>87470318
Alright.

>>87470372

i think what i'm trying to say is that i think that the things bateman did, including the murder, sex acts too perverse for prostitutes (funny enough only marriage and childrearing is too perverse for prostitutes), returning vhs tapes without rewinding them, etc... that only he knows about that break the mold (>>87470192) were the acts that enabled him to be free and that defined him. i don't think we ever see the character reach that state of freedom but that's also intentional

>>87470320
Dude, he barely did anything at work. He would show up, watch tv, hound his secretary, then got out for a $500 lunch.

As his fiance Evelyn said "you can do whatever you want, your father practically owns the company". Bateman then says that he works there because he wants to "fit in".

I hate that fucking dubs made this film impossible to discuss here...

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>>87466087
>He had a comfy life, what the fuck was wrong with him?

you know the saying
>they said i could become anything. so i became comfy

its not as easy beeing done as its beeing said.
getting comfy is a high art.

>>87470417
Sounds like my job but with a $10 lunch and only working on weekends

>>87470474
what you do?

>>87469880
Why didn't he just buy a cabin somewhere?

>>87470435
I hate that you respond to threads without reading them

"What the fuck was wrong with Ted Bundy"

Some people just get a weird kind of darkness inside of them that mutates into homicidal rage.

No one is entirely sure why.

>>87470259
>I thought he got away with it because he was extremely rich
That is partially true, but more closely tied to the fact that he adhered so closely to the stereotype of an upper class wallstreet yuppie that nobody could differentiate him from any other wallstreet yuppie. His peers mistake him for someone else multiple times, including Paul Allen. You could say that's because Paul was drunk, but how drunk would you have to be to forget a co-worker you had just saw the other day?

He got away with it because people barely know he exists. Despite spending much of his time attempting to create an image of himself for others he simultaneously believes that his Self does not exist. He could just disappear one day and fade into obscurity, a missing person case with no resolution.

Just like Paul Allen.

>>87470415
Ahh. Absolutely. If Bateman did indeed kill those people, then he was trying to break free of his shackles. But that is a subset of the questions the film tells you to ask yourself.
>Do I try too hard to fit in? Am I living the life I want to live?
I personally believe he killed those people because it adds to those questions in the manner you stated. But even if he didn't, it doesn't matter. The film's questions stand either way.

>>87466087
He didn't check these.

>>87470494
Work at a healthcare company, mostly just computer work with middle aged women and reading shitposts all day on my phone.
Pays pretty good but unfortunately corporate has been acting like dicks to us lately.

His upper-class upbringing leads to a form of psychopathy that made him feel empty.

He tried to compensate for this emptiness through social climbing.

Ultimately this was futile, but he didn't realize that it wasn't that he was being blocked or thwarted when social situations don't work out. He could never achieve real person hood through getting into the fanciest restaurants and having the best business cards. He doesn't realize so he externalized the rage he felt at his own emptiness instead of realizing that it was flawed strategy was the real reason he still felt empty.

This frustration eventually morphed into homicidal rage.

This is pretty much directly explained in the film guys with the openning monologue and how his anger always peaks with some kind of minor social difficulty that normal people would shrug off, but because social climbing is how he finds meaning the slightest setback is a massive wound to his entire reason for existence.

The movie is literally a warning against trying to fill the holes in your soul with pointless yuppie bullshit.

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>>87466087
Fuck you, not everyone is comfortable living day in day out knowing exactly what's going to happen.
Imagine having such a monotonous life in which you don't have any real struggle.
Imagine waking up knowing what youre going to do everyday and realizing it means absolutely fucking nothing because at the end of the day everything one would normally have to EARN is just handed to you.
I bet you want a family too huh, a nice wife, 2 kids, 2 cars parked outside a 3 bedroom 1 story house with a shitty lawn like every other person in your neighborhood
You disgust me, how easily you swallow the "comfy" pill.
You're nothing but a tiny worker ant who finds solace in security.
I hope you're comfortable. I really do. It's easier to live that kind of life sedated

>>87470752
The pig doesn't wince when Socrates shouts at it. The pig just keeps eating.

>>87470777

that's funny I shout at your mother all the time and she just keeps eating too

The movie may have been a dream but these digits sure arent

>>87470752

All life will end and the universe will go into heat entropy. If you've found yourself in a comfy situation, why ever leave it?

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>>87470794
You need to work on your mom jokes that was pretty weak.

>>87470794
Drown in your emptiness, swine
You think your banter is unique?
Hahahahaha

>>87470752
i have exactly what you glorify and i long for what you loathe.

>>87470511
>Why didn't he just buy a cabin somewhere?
Because as he says in the film "I want. To fit. IN."

>>87470834
There is always better
Why settle when there's so much out there?
I know it'll only leave me with an even bigger appetite but so be it.
I will consume everything if I must to satisfy this feeling

>>87470839

your mom needs to work on this dick

>>87470849

*tips*
but seriously dont reply to me or my son ever again

>>87470856
That's the curse of humanity
We long for what we do not have and when we do our eyes wander.
Always wandering.

>>87470874
thats a pretty toxic attitude, it only makes you almost never happy ever

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>>87470877
There you go, that's better.

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>>87470752
Lol. Here, try this: True freedom, not that bullshit you posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3f1TPVEiVc

>>87470923

thats what your mom said while she was working this dick

>>87469806
dude thats not what he said at all lmao

>>87469499
Sweet

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>>87469499
that's all nice and games, but check these out

>>87470541
Did you know that Ted Bundy's first dog was a collie named Lassie?

>>87470696
Solid post. By far the most accurate analysis in this thread.

>>87469806
Poor people are just as much swimming in mindless materialism than the rich.

>>87469612
are you familiar with the concept of satire

How much do you guys think he made yearly?

>>87466087
No love

>>87475272
$1.2 mil, plus his comfy trustfund.

>>87469499
TAAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE MYYYYYY DUUUUUBSSSS

TAKE MY DUBS

>>87469499
Nice one!

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he should've checked these quads

>>87477077
FUCK

jajajajaja los dublos

>>87466087
>Comfy life
>Wonder why he let it himself go
That's like wondering why young people in the First-World no longer want to major in trades and think labor is beneath them. They've been raised their entire lives thinking that kind of life is peasant work. Who the hell wants to be a peasant?

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>>87470794
Awful, feel free to die

>>87469806
Being poor means being stabbed in an alley

>>87470511
Read the book, homie
He spends like a month in a country mansion, and it drives him even crazier than usual

>>87467123
digits checker

>>87466329
Off by 4
>>87466883
Off by 5

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>>87476199
good lord

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Patrick Bateman falls in love with his dubs.

Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with dub-finding bot. Never minding the strange repeating digits, he immediately uses it, and is overjoyed to find out that the dubs have a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he engages in more dubs getting ways, he instead acquires singles. Confused by these turn of events, the Wall Street businessman investigates and finds out that the dubs he made is not the same dubs he fell in love with. In fact, the dubs don't exist in this universe at all. They are dubs from an alternate universe, who has fallen in love with the MC's own psycho self, who too is blissfully unaware of their crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While they shitpost all over 4chan, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of DUBS.

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>>87466087
>not doing any work
>comfy

What? How can you feel fulfilled without working for what you own?

Because he couldn't get these
D U B S
U
B
S

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>>87480151
>can't even get dubs

>>87480151
Already a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/Keit-AI-Tomoyuki-x-Seiko-Keit%E6%84%9B-%E5%A5%89%E6%96%87-x-%E8%81%96%E5%AD%90
http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825

>>87466087
It was phony, OP
A big phony life
Full of phony people
His life may have been comfy but it was complete and total nonsense

>>87480151
FINDS
A
WAY

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>>87480151

>>87470752
>3 bedroom 1 story house
How can people live like that? People are meant to live in wide open spaces. I live alone in a 4 bedroom house, big garden and a couple of acres of field. Couldn't live any other way.

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Another double Paul?

>>87466087
he didn't get a reservation at dubsia

>>87469499

kek

How can this thread have so little dibs?

>>87466087
Mental illness.

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>>87470313
These dubs?

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>>87481324
>>87482755

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>>87466087
I think we can all agree that his card was the best

>>87469499
the most kino dubs of 2017

he was a personification of 80s consumerism and yuppie culture

>>87466087
He couldn't get a reservation to Dorsia like Paul Allen could.

>>87466087
He was a literal stone cold psychopath

>>87486000
KINO

>>87470696
Yeah that's pretty much whar I got out of it. I would also add that killing gives individuality to his victims and himself, and the gore present in his crimes clashes with the comfy neatness of his life.

>>87486211
chekt