It was Crap.
A decade later I have seen a movie based on this so-called novel, and it is Crap.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
There are numerous problems with this waste of celluloid. The least of which are the countless controversies surrounding it.
I digress. A woman directed the "American Psycho". That right there goes to explain much about this effort. "American Psycho", the novel, is the story of macho homicidal tendencies to the extreme. With a woman directing the cinematic version this element has been castrated, lifted from the narrative, effectively going to destroy the primary horror of the story.
But does this matter? Not really. Patrick Bateman, the supposed hero of this terrible tale is supposed to be, superfically, a serial killer. Director Mary Harron has turned him into a pretty boy with a sharp knife and a missing member. (Symbolically speaking, that is.)
In the novel there was an element of the narrative about men behaving badly, but justifying their behavior because they work on Wall Street. That element is here, but is misdirected by director Harron, who is too busy trying to make a squalid feministic statement: Men are inherently bad.
Men, in general, may be narcisstic, as Bateman is, driven by the male ego, but they are not, in general, Patrick Bateman.
Contrary to what director Harron suggests.
Harron, in interviews and press releases, has said that this movie is feministic. No. What it is is an overpriced home movie made by a closet dyke who got stood up more than once, who has been rejected countless times, who doesn't realize that men are her equals, not her underlings or masters. A few words now on the actual film: Apparently actual screenwriting method was not available to Guinevere Turner, who is credited as co-screenwriter of this nonsense. I suspect this, and opine it goes to explain the lack of structure present.
The acting--what ACTING? This is a cattle call during which a camera was running. There is NO acting, relatively-speaking. The actors (if they can honestly be called that) are nothing more than chattel that give life to the props in a given scene.
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