Writer: Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron
Cast: Christian Bale, William Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Duration: 102 Minutes
Country: USA
Production Company: Am Psycho Productions, Lions Gate Films
Official Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVNmgHKweU
It started out brilliant, with Bale's perfect acting and hot body, then it got crazy, with all bloody murder and creepy sex stuff, end it ended out very confusing, at least for me.
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street guy, who is basically have everything by doing almost nothing. He is rich, he lives in a sophisticated apartment that he thinks has the best view of the best city in the world, he has the perfect skin and perfect body, he engages with a rich beautiful woman, well he's got it all. Not just that, he has the most amazing job in the world. He works at a big company, receive a big fat check, by just sitting in his big room and doing nothing but hanging out in a fancy restaurant with all his almost look alike friends. It is possibly all men's dream, right?
But having it all does not mean feeling enough. He wants more. He still feels that he does not fit in. He still think that he is not good enough, he is not the best. If someone, anyone comes to him with something better than what he owns, he feels disturb. He feels defeated. He feels insecure. And he hates it. And he suddenly have this need to kill someone. Jealousy and greed kill.
Not just that, bored with his day to day life and his too good to be true job, he starts his weird sex things. He paid bunch of money to do weird creepy stuff both with street whore and expensive high class prostitute. Still not enough, he also has the needs to sadistically slash those women. Boredom and lust kill.
Creepy.
Kill, kill, and kill, he cannot control his need to kill anymore. He become careless, paranoid, scare, and terrified. Cannot stand the burden in his mind anymore, he finally confess all his sins to his lawyer.
And after that, I was confused.
Are all those murder really happened or just some kind of weird imagination that happened on his sick mind? The creator wants to leave it to the audience. Letting our perception decide the ending of the movie. Umm, I usually like this kind of ending. It makes my brain works (as if usually it doesn't), but for this movie, I totally hate it. I mean, there's no question at all. It just a movie with no explanation at the end. I cannot find any clue to decide is it real or is it just in his head. It's all seems like it is real, then in the last scene, everything just became confusing. And they close the curtain, leaving us with no explanation. It is just mean and irresponsible.
But over all, it is a great movie. Patrick Bateman is one hell of a character. And (of course) Bale play the role brilliantly. I love the way Bateman give a speech about history of music before slaughtering his victim. It is sooooo sick in a remarkable way. Love it.
I also love the 'frienemies' relationship between those Wall Street guys. They look like they are friends at the outside, they even try their best to look as similar as possible, but in the inside, they hate each other and try their best to hurt each other. I think Harron describes the relationship perfectly.
Great story, excellent character, brilliant cast, but irresponsible and annoying ending.
Rate: 8/10
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