Did he do it?

Did he do it?

No.

In the book absolutely.
The whole point is the real estate agent cleaned the apartment because they wanted it sold and going to the cops was too much of a hassle.

Yes and he got away with it

The real estate agent painted the apartment to cover-up the fact that a murder took place
The lawyer mistook someone else as being Paul Allen in London, as everyone mistaking each other was a central thread throughout the film
Patrick Bateman absolutely killed those people
He also checked these digits

Excellent post, friend.

WITNESSED

Fug

Dubs of proof.
But I thought the author himself left it open to interpretation?

The book is less clear and more hallucinatory, especially the farther into it you get. You don't really know whether he did or didn't in the book.

In the movie, though, he definitely killed them all.

but how did he blow up those cop cars with a few 9mm bullets? Patrick himself is surprised by this and gives a confused looked to his gun after it happens.

He checked these digits, yeah.

Maybe he only imagined some murders

such as?
the old lady when he tried to feed Atm a cat, the lobby desk boys he shot, his cousin or whatever that short haired dyke he drugged with the wine
who did he truly kill?

...

dubs

>feed atm a cat
The fuck was up with that?

Did I get dubs?

And here we go

>In the book absolutely.
>The book is less clear and more hallucinatory
Which one is it?

Exactly

According to the author and to the director, yes. He did it.

That answer makes no sense because you're giving a "yes" to something that was not a yes or no question.
You might think you came off as expressing some sort of uncertainty that you want to show was what the book was trying to do, but honestly that doesn't explain anything because it doesn't answer why both anons that have read the book disagreed on such a crucial point. You might as well have replied to the wrong post.

there was a bunch of weird shit in the book that didn't make it into the movie. In one of the chapters he finds a dead jellyfish on the beach and brings it home to microwave and eat it. In another he sends a live rat into a prostitutes ass through a hamster tube.

Exactly

now check'em

Bitch I'll find your house.

Is the book significantly better in any other aspect?

You'll only find the house reddit built

it's better in every aspect.

The entire work is supposed to be one long condemnation against 80's 'greed is good' conspicuous consumption culture. Despite being financially successful, Bateman is unloved and unregarded by his coworkers, his fiance, or anybody else. Nobody remembers faces, names blur together as if the identity they were attached to never even mattered in the first place - to the point where nobody even notices when a person is murdered because there's another fifty office drones with the exact same hairstyle.

The real estate agent painting over the apartment (and spraying copious doses of air freshener in the book) is another aspect of this condemnation. Nowhere else is the sheer lack of humanity more apparent when Batemen is merely given a nasty look for what is clearly the perpetrator returning to the crime scene. The agent cares more about selling on the shithole then the bodies he removed to make that end or the person that put them there.

And in the end, Bateman goes unpunished, unreckoned by karmic justice. He is thrown back into the same greed is good culture that produced him, without even a single regard toward his sins.

Much like the madmen of today continue to flirt with politics, society, and the economy without being punished.