Ending!
Haven't seen the film for a while. Used to be a fave! What happened in the end again? Dream?
shareEveryone covered up for his crimes or was too self centered to care.
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Interesting, endings like this and vanilla sky always confuse me
shareVanilla Sky? Great star, shiddy remake of that super movie Open Your Eyes, what an undisputed masterpiece. Penelope Cruz, she was a hot number. Great ass. Banged that winner Tom Cruise, what a tasteful nitwit.
Can't, I'm afraid. Matinee of Le Miz. Christ, I'll call you.
If you were confused by the ending of Vanilla Sky, then you didn't see it. Vanilla Sky had the most overexplained ending of any movie ever. It was like "I know this movie was confusing, so I'll explain it to you very slowly so that even a child will understand every single detail." I've always felt that Vanilla Sky would have been better off if the ending were immensely brief and barely gave a hint as to tying-up the events that came before.
Anyways, as to American Psycho, the ending was that Patrick made every effort to confess to his crimes and face the music, but everyone else covered-up the evidence out of self-interest, so he was tormented by the impossibility of ever being held accountable for what he had done. It kind of reminds me of The Big Short, how the financial sector was utterly incompetent at all levels, and everybody involved had their own self-interested reason to continue doing their jobs incompetently, failing to accurate assess credit ratings, engaging in predatory lending, buying-up toxic assets, etc..
Guessing someone had to verbally relay that to you?, Word for word as you just have with me.
Also, that's a very amibigiois theory you have there. Now after having watched this again this evening. This is my theory.....
Bateman is a psychotic schizophrenic and none of the events depicted actually happened.
Looking at the evidence presented by the movie, we see Batemen commit acts that anyone as high profile as him could not have done without raising at least some questions.
During the film we are presented his crazy subconscious mind that allows him to easily obtain a threesome with two prostitutes while physically beating them, going into what seems to be murderous rampages over business cards as well as seeing an ATM that tells him to insert a kitten instead of a card.
All of these events can be explained as happening inside Bateman's mind rather than in real life. In reality, one could argue the only true act that happened during the film was breaking off his engagement with Evelyn due to his realization of his psychotic visions becoming more and more intense as the film goes on.
In the end, Bateman seemingly kills dozens of police officers, something that would not easily be forgiven, forgotten, nor without being the talk of the town and also among his socialite 'friends'. Even his 'confession' is aluded to by his lawyer as a laugh as they believe Bateman is too reserved to commit such acts.
This further portrays him as actually battling inside his head most of the time, instead of a physical representation of his acts. It can be argued that while his psychotic visions are occurring, he is actually just sitting, silently, slightly catatonic while these play out inside his thoughts.
Nope, your theory is perfect and makes most sense. Thank you.
share"while his psychotic visions are occurring..." he is also making the drawings in the notebook Jean is looking at the end. This should leave no doubt that it's all happening in his head.
I was thinking this as well, I think one of the first scenes in the movie backs this up. When he's in the bar and the bartender says he cant use the drink tickets, He yells at her while her back is turned. When she turns around she gives him the drinks as if he said nothing at all. You could argue that she never heard him due to loud music but the way the sound design was done it seemed like she would have been able to hear him. At the very least I'd say they were going for ambiguity otherwise I'd expect them to pull out the loud music/misheard trope.
share"Dream"? Oh, that's fabulous. That's rich!
Fighting the frizzies, at 11.
Grow up! And how gruesome are you? Bateman wouldn't keep company as ugly as you
shareEasyrider1987, don't post your own thoughts again. Post a quote or reply or something.
I am the rocker, I am the roller, I'm an ooouta-controller!
Shut the *beep* up and don't post on my thread again!
shareTouchie, touchie, let's just avoid the issue, alright? Now, are we having quotee?
Can't, I'm afraid. Matinee of Le Miz. Christ, I'll call you.
You're a *beep* ugly bitch! .... I wanna stag you to death and play around with your blood? Happy rockin and rolling??
shareHappy? No, put it in the context! Rockin and rollin? O God, easy rider, that was Candem University guy, I believe my brother Sean. A slightly better haircut than Stash, a bigger doufus than Vanden, but a spineless light weight who actually can get a reservation at Dorisa to save his life.
Can't, I'm afraid. Matinee of Le Miz. Christ, I'll call you.
It wasnt a dream but all in his head, sick fantasies if you like, everything we see him do are just drawings in his notebook that his secretary finds in the end when he breaks completely, he didnt kill Paul Allen cause he really was in London, the lawyer had met him twice, he didnt chase the girl with the chainsaw either because then the neighbours wouldve been opening their doors, he couldnt clean all that mess up in a real event and even when he dragged Paul Allens body out to the taxi there was blood on the floor and no one noticing, not even the doorman or one shotting cops etc because it was just all in his head of what he wanted to do but never did, in the end he became so crazy that he actually thought that he did everything that he was fantasizing about, but it was just in his mind and in his notebook.
shareHe drew stuff in his notebook, therefore it didn't really happen? That simply does not stand up to any test of logic.
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