American Psycho (this is not an exit)
Well I fell like Indiana Jones digging the net. I recently found a cheap copy (the cover was almost smacked) for American Psycho so I bought it. Now I am doing some research, you know wiki and something else
Are we enough AP lovers to start a discussion ? there's a good site for do some research ala Indiana butt let's start a fresh discussion. http://www.briankotek.com/psycho/frame.html
I own that book... Loved it..
Loved the sarcasm about nobody knowing who anybody is, loved the sense of nothingness I get when reading what Pat Bateman thinks and how he thinks.
I wasn´t all that shocked by the murder scenes in it... But then again I do love splatter horror movies so...🙂 And there´s the fact that I had expected something really nasty, which those scenes are too... But they didn´t shock me...🙂
Totally agree about the sarcasm.
About the gore, the author even redux some murders (an sex scenes particulary) in order to give us some tedious, and let us numb against violence. I think At the end He tried that we pay more attention to secundary characters or events more than the murders. (He almost copy and paste the scenes with the prostitutes and add the fact that you are almost asked to not pay attention to the names and thats the same scene)
The violence I think it isn´t real and is all like he is sitting in a bar and thinking "I would kill him" and later he insert those scenes among the monotony of his life. perhaps it's even more complex than this, you know all the tim price thing
So you know the end?
What did everybody think about that?
My friends all said yeah, nothing had happened, he hadn't killed anyone. Was it open? I thought maybe he had killed people just the guy who was in London, he had killed someone else and thought it was him, emphasising that nobody did know who anyone was??
am I an idiot??
american psycho was a brilliant book and the film didn't do it justice
the whole novel tries to create a sense of entrapment...hence the beginning is "abandon all hope ye who enter here" and the end is "this is not an exit"
it shows the futility of bateman's situation...
i also think that the murders were all in his head and the scene that shows this most prominantly is when he returns to the apartment where he was supposed to have disposed of 2 prostitutes
then again the lack of anything being mentioned about the murders from other peoples perspective might show how batemans psychotic tendencies just detach him from everyone elses reality completely
fans of american psycho should definitely read lunar park which is not long out...it charts the life of bret easton ellis...the writer of american psycho...but he is an entirely fictional version of bret easton ellis...is shows how someone is supposed to be mimicking the patrick bateman murders and how his dead father comes back to haunt him...
the books final few pages are tremendous...brilliant book