The homeless man...


(in this movie version) Was the only one I believe Patrick killed. It was the perfect metaphor for reaganomics. And Patrick and his kin bathed in this mentality.

The rest (again, in the movie not the book) were just fantasies Patrick had out of frustration. Paul was something Patrick could not be no matter how hard he tried.

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Nah he killed all of them. The last scene wasn't meant to make the audience think he didn't kill them, the director even said so.

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He killed a lot of people. Some escort girls in an apartment uptown, uh, some homeless people, maybe five or ten, an N.Y.U. girl he met in Central Park. He left her at a parking lot behind some doughnut shop. He killed Bethany, his old girlfriend, with a nail gun. And then some man, some old faggot with a dog. He, uh, killed another girl with a chain saw. He had to. She almost got away. And someone else there. I can't remember, maybe a model. She's dead too.

And, uh, Paul Allen. He killed Paul Allen with an ax in the face. His body dissolved in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't wanna leave anything out here. I guess he killed maybe...20 people. Maybe 40! And, um, I'm sure he got away with it.

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He just had to kill a lot of people.

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No new knowledge can be extracted from his telling. This confession has meant nothing.

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Nope. He killed 'em all, really. But something about this movie inspires a lot of people to make up their own version.

Reaganomics? Actually, the '80s were pretty good. I could afford an apartment by myself on an unskilled labor job. Impossible today under Senile Joe, the greatest president of all time.

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Now you have Momala!

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I only opened this thread because i thought it would be the revelation that the homeless man is played by the guy who'd go on to play Carcetti's running mate, Norman, in The Wire.
Which just shows what quality actors this movie had, even for the bit parts. No wonder it did so well and still holds up now

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