Movie MarauderAmerican Psycho
January 6th 2009 14:12
I watched this movie for the third time ever last weekend. I own it by the way, but then again I own many, many, many movies. So anyway, I watched it for the third time ever and also checked out the special features, as it is a DVD. I had no idea that this movie was based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis. There was a lot of discussion surrounding the controvesy that this book created when it was first published. Interesting...
This film gives a first hand peak into the psyche and life of Wall Street yuppie Patrick Bateman, who's nighttime homicidal tendencies are beginning to spill over into his day time life. It is scary and hillarious all at the same time. I can't help but laugh my butt off while he's dancing to Phil Collins and getting dressed in a rain suit to kill his colleage Paul Allen with an axe. Christian Bale personifies Patrick Bateman to a T.
The film is a little difficult to understand in places in my opinion, such as, I have trouble understanding why no body seems to take him seriously. He confesses everything to his lawyer, who calls him a liar and says that he had just had lunch with Paul Allen a few days before, being that Patrick couldn't have killed him. I guess it is because he is a high powered yuppie that no one even dreams that he could have killed anybody. My other theory was that perhaps he hadn't actually killed anyone, maybe it was all in his head, but this is partially in part to my not having read the book. I'm sure the story would be clearer if I had read the book.
All around, I think it is a great movie that really gives you such a bizarre and twisted storyline that is so funny at the same time that is is so worth seeing. I am interested in reading the book now as well, as according to the special features, the book incited rage from many feminist groups as they felt that it targeted women and described them being killed in very disturbing ways. I have had my feminist tendencies now and then but this is ridiculous in my opinion. It is a book people, come on! This is a story turned movie that was an author's ideas for a great story, that's all! Look at the stats in the world in terms of serial killings anyways. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is a white male killing women! Unfortunately, men do commit violence against women, but this is just a book. It seems to me that someone just needs a reason to complain about something. I think it is a great book mostly due to the fact that it is not a single white outcast of a male committing the typical serial killings, it is a high powered Wall street yuppie who has lots of "friends" and even a fiancee! Not the typical serial killer!
This film gives a first hand peak into the psyche and life of Wall Street yuppie Patrick Bateman, who's nighttime homicidal tendencies are beginning to spill over into his day time life. It is scary and hillarious all at the same time. I can't help but laugh my butt off while he's dancing to Phil Collins and getting dressed in a rain suit to kill his colleage Paul Allen with an axe. Christian Bale personifies Patrick Bateman to a T.
The film is a little difficult to understand in places in my opinion, such as, I have trouble understanding why no body seems to take him seriously. He confesses everything to his lawyer, who calls him a liar and says that he had just had lunch with Paul Allen a few days before, being that Patrick couldn't have killed him. I guess it is because he is a high powered yuppie that no one even dreams that he could have killed anybody. My other theory was that perhaps he hadn't actually killed anyone, maybe it was all in his head, but this is partially in part to my not having read the book. I'm sure the story would be clearer if I had read the book.
All around, I think it is a great movie that really gives you such a bizarre and twisted storyline that is so funny at the same time that is is so worth seeing. I am interested in reading the book now as well, as according to the special features, the book incited rage from many feminist groups as they felt that it targeted women and described them being killed in very disturbing ways. I have had my feminist tendencies now and then but this is ridiculous in my opinion. It is a book people, come on! This is a story turned movie that was an author's ideas for a great story, that's all! Look at the stats in the world in terms of serial killings anyways. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is a white male killing women! Unfortunately, men do commit violence against women, but this is just a book. It seems to me that someone just needs a reason to complain about something. I think it is a great book mostly due to the fact that it is not a single white outcast of a male committing the typical serial killings, it is a high powered Wall street yuppie who has lots of "friends" and even a fiancee! Not the typical serial killer!
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