Hello my lovelies,
Hope everyone is having a good week so far. When I've not been at
work I've been working my way through a long list of films I have
building up, and writing these posts for you lovelies to read.
Today's is another that was suggested to me, and although its fifteen
years old now, I had still never seen it. It is of course American
Psycho. Based of the novel by Bret Easton Ellis under the same name,
American Psycho is a comedy psychological thriller directed by Mary
Harron and it was released in 2000. I really enjoyed the film so I
can't promise that this will be a spoiler free post but I'll try.
I did look this up before I watched and loved the look of the cast so
I was excited to watch it and see how they worked together, and how
Christian Bale played a bit of a crazy character.
The film is set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the 1980s
and from the start of the film there is a voice over that continues
throughout by the main character Patrick Bateman. Bateman spends his
days with the elite of Wall Street but then by night his activities
couldn't be much different. One of the first scenes we see (and hear)
how Patrick takes care of himself as he has a very specific routine
for doing things, and it was during this that made me love this
character a little bit, lets just say there's a very nice shower
scene (need I say more, I think not).
Throughout the film its very clear that Patrick Bateman isn't the
type of guy to show emotion unless he's talking about his love for
music, however he mentions that the only emotion he feels is greed.
Although if someone mentions business cards to him as he doesn't hide
his jealousy very well, and his anger about it actually results in
the first of his killings we say when he attacks a homeless guy and
his dog for no reason. From this point on it was clear that he isn't
all there in the head. Christian Bale himself even said in an
interview last year for Sabotage Times that 'the whole movie's a
strange experience'.
When I looked up the cast I noticed that Jared Leto played a
character called Paul Allen, but I didn't even recognise him at all
first! He played his part well though so it was a bit sad when
Bateman had his way with him, and that never ends well. Another actor
who plays a bit of a key role within the film is Willem Defoe as the
character Detective Donald Kimball. I'm not sure what it is but there
is always something creepy about Willem Defoe's characters, or maybe
its him, either way he gives me the creeps. I think that Christian
Bale as Patrick Bateman was an amazing casting choice as he played it
perfectly, and although Bateman is quite crazy I kinda love him a
little bit. Before filming Johnny Depp had actually shown an interest
in playing the part of Patrick Bateman but I don't think that
would've worked quite as well as having Christian Bale.
Throughout the film there doesn't even seem to be any reason why
Patrick is killing these people, he's just not all there in the head
and it seems to be that he gets pleasure from torturing and murdering
people. Towards the end of the film after taking the lives of so many
is various ways, it seems that Bateman goes slightly crazy as he
loses it and leaves a confession on his lawyers answering machine,
however that is taken as a joke and Patrick accepts that he'll never
get the punishment he deserves for his actions and that having
confessed meant nothing.
So much happened in this film, and I actually found it quite amusing
at times, not sure if that's a good or bad thing. I really enjoyed it
and would happily watch it again as well. As Patrick Bateman has a
love of music it also has a pretty good soundtrack that worked well,
and nearly always featured during his crazy killing sprees.
I think it is definitely worth a watch so go and find it right now.
You'll thank me just for the shower scene at the beginning ;)
Until next time, that's all for now folks.
Thanks for reading :) x
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