Memes aside, what is the real meaning of this movie?
For some reason I never got a really decent idea of what is this movie trying to show, maybe I'm looking too much into it and is just only a guy getting even more crazy.
Also Huey Lewis in the right about this movie?
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The shallow, superficial nature of the 80s.
obsession with self and its problems in the extreme-scenario
This.
Huey Lewis' summation seems very accurate.
But did Bateman really killed someone ?
Basically, he achieved financial, professional, and social success at a very young age. It's a full-time job just to maintain his status - it'd be easy for him to become LESS successful, even through some minor social slip, but there's not really any room for him to go any higher, socially or professionally. He's not even 30 years old, and his life can only go downhill.
So he's trapped, disillusioned, he has no dreams or ambitions or hope for the future, he got everything he thought he wanted and he's still fucking miserable and alone. He's just getting angrier and angrier, there's nobody in his life he can relate to or talk to honestly. And he realizes that, if you're rich and handsome and socially well-connected, women (and other people) will let you get away with pretty much anything if they think they'll get something out of being closer to you.
He takes full advantage of that and, pretty shortly, gets bored of sex just as he's gotten bored of everything else. His kinks and preferences get more and more cruel and abusive until he's just outright torturing, mutilating, and murdering women. Then he's just lashing out at random strangers on the street.
By the end of the book (movie) it seems that he's completely unable to distinguish his fantasies from reality, and he's desperate to get caught, to get punished, to get some kind of acknowledgment that his actions have consequences and he's not literally living in a video game, or stuck in a coma-hallucination, or something.
But nobody gives a fuck. If Bateman really is killing people, they'd rather just not know about it. As long as he keeps showing up to work, showing up to social functions, and making money, they'd literally let him get away with murder. And that's his Hell, basically. He will never even know what he fantasized, or what he really did, because the entire city is mutually invested in covering up his wrongdoings so he can continue doing whatever the fuck he does in his fancy office.
I saw it as a satire of a society that had become so self important/selfish and egotistic that they couldn't notice a literal psychotic serial killer operating fairly plainly within their midst
the realtor opting to cover up his crimes and mess at the end to save property value was kind of the final touch to this sentiment for me
There are two schools of thought:
1. Patrick is insane and hallucinates a violent, murderous secret life to cope with the banality of his life, including an engagement to a woman who he hates and a job he has because of family pressure.
2. Patrick is axe crazy and pure evil but gets away with EVERYTHING because he's rich and powerful and more to the point, everyone around him is self-absorbed and don't give a fuck and worse, apathetic to the point where everyone looks the same and people routinely mix people up with no fuck's given.
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These dubs were the meaning of the movie
The movie spoonfeeds you the meaning at the end.
memes aside, what is the real mining of these dubs?
The rich are so out of touch with reality, they can do anything.
>two meanings
>the movie literally has dubs built into the message
This
Yes, he did.
Pretty much.
>memes aside, what is the real meaning of this movie
You realize it's a black comedy and not a psychological horror, right?
We have this thread too often.
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this sums it up perfectly
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>By the end of the book (movie) it seems that he's completely unable to distinguish his fantasies from reality, and he's desperate to get caught, to get punished, to get some kind of acknowledgment that his actions have consequences and he's not literally living in a video game, or stuck in a coma-hallucination, or something.
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>But nobody gives a fuck.
This, fucking this.
The scene where he calls the guy after killing people, and the next day literally nobody gives a single shit. They thought he was acting, there's not a single consequence for him waiting.
What a flick.
Satire of 80s Wall Street yuppie culture. The author said that today the story would be set in Silicon Valley. So basically, straight white men are sociopaths.
This movie is really relatable to anyone who's ever had a serious problem with alcohol. Waking up with scenes in your head from the night before, and you're not sure if it's your worst-case scenario fantasy of what might've happened, or your actual memory of what happened. I'm 99% sure I've never killed anyone, but besides that this movie really hit close to home