"American Psycho" -The Movie

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This paper reviews and analyzes the film through exploring the main theme, namely, the protagonist's psychosis and obsession. It also looks at the theme of the immoderation of the 1980's . It looks at how the images, environment and music of the film facilitates and reinforces its 1980's setting. It develops the idea of the lack of self-identity on the part of the protagonist and his awareness of his mental distortion. The murder scenes in the film are then analyzed for the messages about the protagonist and the society that they reveal.

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"The character being portrayed in the movie is a kind of a man who believes to spend his life on his own. He used to dine at the finest restaurants of the city, wears the fanciest cloths and has a unique way of living. Working as a Vice President of Pierce and Pierce, he is considered to be one of the most disciplined executives of the company. As Mr. Patrick Bateman keeps on enjoying his routine life, socializing with his lover and other female counterparts, his life is suddenly disturbed because of the disappearance of one of his rivals, Mr. Paul Allen, and the detective directs his investigation towards Patrick."

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