r/AmericanPsycho

Speaking for myself I absolutely love the scene where Bateman meets Tom Cruise, and a part of me has wondered how the movie would've been received if they kept in the scene where Bateman murders a child (if memory serves an 8 year old) at the zoo.

Movie's very faithful, but I felt a lot of the humor was lost since most of the humor in the book came from Bateman's dishonest, biased, or self-centered descriptions of what he does.

After liking the movie and reading posts about how much people like the book, I started reading it recently. I'm a lifelong reader but it's already getting tedious barely 30 pages in with the constant listing of every brand name item everyone is wearing or has in their apartment. Pages and pages describing his morning routine with every item mentioned by name. I guess this is demonstrating his obsessive nature, but... will this continue throughout the entire novel?

Setting aside Jean and the homeless, I believe Bateman is not only the most civil American Psycho character of his world, but also the most human.

The leading cause of what drives him to kill is the hollowing loneliness his world has isolated him into, in opposition to his endless yearning for depth and emotional authenticity.

The more he searches for love and meaning, the more he finds trends, beauty standards, and money.

If we are able to look past the surface of his atrocities committed, everything that drives him to do what he does is from the lack of love in his world of which he has become so desperate for it has driven him to find an outlet for his rage.

I find his friends a lot more psychopathic than him, because of the fact they find comfort in the lack of warmth and depth while Bateman just wants to escape and feel accepted for who he is by someone who has meaning to their life outside of Capitalism and trends.

This is why he never killed Jean or Louis.

He kills the homeless, as well animals and children because of how much he envies their freedom from his nihilistic life—while his peers see nothing wrong with it at all.

Hi, so I just watched American Psycho and the whole ending makes no sense to me.

It Gives the feeling like he is waking up from a dream but it never really presents this. I also thought it may be one of those company cover-up things especially when he goes back to the murder apartment and when he talks to the lawyer. in both cases the people he encounters act kind of distant or pretend they dont know anything. I also thought it possible that he killed himself and is looking back or last of all that maybe none of it ever happened?

Id like to hear what you think